Installation on Linux Mint

2 views (last 30 days)
jamesdg
jamesdg on 26 Mar 2015
Edited: oulusel on 2 Jun 2015
I installed R2015a on my computer following the directions laid out at: help.ubuntu.com/community/MATLAB. It's ubuntu and I run Mint, but Mint is based on 14.04 so under the hood it should be similar.
I install and activate without problem, but when I run matlab in the terminal I get:
terminate called after throwing an instance of fl::except::Exception<MATLAB::settings::core::NoWritePermissionOnDirectory, std::exception, void>'
what(): N2fl6except9ExceptionIN6MATLAB8settings4core28NoWritePermissionOnDirectoryESt9exceptionvEE
Aborted
MATLAB is selecting SOFTWARE OPENGL rendering.
At this point nothing happens for a long time; the Matlab logo and license image shows up and tells me which license I have, but doesn't proceed.
Any Linux users know what might be going on?
Thanks
  1 Comment
oulusel
oulusel on 2 Jun 2015
Edited: oulusel on 2 Jun 2015
I just followed the same link you posted and got the same error trying to reinstall MATLAB. After googling for no answers for some time I realized that I forgot to change the 'username' tag in the following line of the instructions with my actual username =). Change that and it should be fixed. Hope this helps to other sleepy folks out there as well.
cd ~ sudo chown username -R ~/.matlab

Sign in to comment.

Answers (0)

Categories

Find more on Introduction to Installation and Licensing in Help Center and File Exchange

Products

Community Treasure Hunt

Find the treasures in MATLAB Central and discover how the community can help you!

Start Hunting!