Install Matlab on Linux

Install the binary of matlab on any Linux Distro, including an Appstarter to launch it

Installing Matlab on Linux is annoying. But if done right, its not actually hard, here are the needed commands:

1. Download Matlab

save Matlab_R<VERSIONNUMBER>.zip to a folder like /home/USERNAME/Programs

cd ~/Programs &&\
mkdir INSTALL &&\
unzip -X -K matlab_* &&\
rm -f matlab_*.zip
./install

# activation should now be done in the installer
# choose "INSTALL" in the same directory as the download dir
# this works on immutable distros and also helps with the integration

GUI integration

wget https://github.com/trytomakeyouprivate/Matlab-Linux-Install/raw/main/MATLAB-GUI-INSTALL
chmod +x MATLAB-GUI-INSTALL
./MATLAB-GUI-INSTALL

• bashrc, zshrc, fish integration
• Icon in the appmenu
• mimetype, so .m files should be automatically opened

Install the Matlab Packamanager MPM to get updates:

wget https://www.mathworks.com/mpm/glnxa64/mpm -P ~/.bin/
chmod +x ~/.bin/mpm

Usage:

mpm install --release=<release> --destination=<destination> [--products] <product1> <product2>
# for example:

mpm install --release=R2022a --destination=/home/user/Programs/matlab --products MATLAB

Current problems

All problems solved for now.

Version numbers seem to no longer be a problem