Matlab unable to install add-ons

I'm on Arch Linux and when I try to install an add-on on Matlab, I get this error: "Unable to install because you do not have write permissions to this folder: /usr/local/MATLAB/R2024a" How can I solve this?

Answer 1

[Manikanta Aditya]

The error message you’re seeing is due to insufficient write permissions for the directory /usr/local/MATLAB/R2024a. This is common when trying to modify system directories as a non-root user.

Try this in terminal:

sudo chown -R yourusername:yourusername /usr/local/MATLAB/R2024a

This command changes the owner of the /usr/local/MATLAB/R2024a directory to yourusername, giving you write permissions.

Hope this works!

[Thomas]

Thanks for the answers, it works

[Manikanta Aditya]

Perfect, Thanks!

[Guðjón Bergmann]

Worked for me as well. Thanks!

[Yash]

Worked for me aswell. Thank you!

[鹤梦]

Worked for me as well. Thanks!

[Bendegúz]

This worked for me as well! I am using mint.

[Martin]

Worked for me thanks a lot!

[Ryan]

It works but is really dangerous, the better option is to reinstall matlab in a folder after the home folder.