Why do I receive an error when installing from files downloaded using Firefox/Mozilla on my 64-bit Linux machine?

Date Last Modified: Thursday, August 5, 2010

Solution ID:		1-2QFSLI
Product:		MATLAB
Reported in Release:		R2006a
Platform:		Linux 64-bit
Operating System:		Suse 9.x

Subject:

Problem Description:

I am on a a 64-bit Linux machine and have used Firefox/Mozilla to download files from MathWorks website. After I download the files and extract boot.ftp, I execute the installer to install MATLAB and encountered the following errors:

Extracting ftp files . . . [please wait] Extracting matlab.common tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Error extracting matlab.common!!! Finished extracting ftp files. Starting installer ...
If I go ahead and try to install, I see only MATLAB listed. None of the other products I downloaded are in the list to install.

Solution:

This error can occur when using Firefox or Mozilla to download files on a 64-bit Linux machine. To resolve this issue, the files must be downloaded using a different browser on the 64-bit Linux machine.

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