MATLAB on Fedora 37

How do I install and use matlab 2022b on fedora?

Answer 1

[johannes neyer]

I just lost a few hours getting this to work. More detailed information can be found in this Arch Linux wiki entry.

Replace $MATLAB_DIR with the path you installed Matlab to (e.g.: /home/username/matlab). I had to navigate the installer with the keyboard as text input boxes stopped working as soon as I clicked on something with the mouse.

cd ~/Downloads/matlab_R2022b_glnxa64
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libfreetype.so.6
./install

Set scaling for high DPI screens:

TMP=$HOME/tmp $MATLAB_DIR/bin/matlab -r "s = settings;s.matlab.desktop.DisplayScaleFactor.PersonalValue=2;quit" -nodesktop -nosplash

Fix opengl errors:

echo "-Djogl.disable.openglarbcontext=1" >> $MATLAB_DIR/bin/glnxa64/java.opts

Add shortcut:

> cat ~/.local/share/applications/matlab.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Terminal=false
MimeType=text/x-matlab
Exec=env LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 /usr/lib64/libfreetype.so.6" LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/dri/ $MATLAB_DIR/bin/matlab -desktop
Name=Matlab
Icon=$MATLAB_DIR/bin/glnxa64/cef_resources/matlab_icon.png
Categories=Development;Math;Science
Comment=Scientific computing environment
StartupNotify=true

[Vinzenz Brian Gerhard]

export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6

This gave me the error below, however, even with it the other steps worked for me on Fedora 38. Thanks.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

[Viktor Erdelyi]

I suspect it is a typo and he meant the 64-bit version (same as in the shortcut):

/usr/lib64/libfreetype.so.6

[johannes neyer]

Yes, probably. Can't test this anymore.

[Thomas Kock]

Still works under Fedora 39 and R2023b. Thanks for sharing!

Answer 2

[Joshua Rhodes]

You could also try using distrobox and podman to create an ubuntu container and running Matlab in that. (Ubuntu is one of the guaranteed supported distros.)