Why do I see "error while loading shared libraries: libXss.so.1" when starting MATLAB on a Linux machine?

Why do I see "error while loading shared libraries: libXss.so.1" when starting MATLAB in terminal on my CentOS Linux machine?

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

This issue will occur if you are missing the libXss.so.1 library, which is part of the libXScrnSaver package. To resolve this issue, run the command:

sudo yum install libXScrnSaver

 

[Scott Minkin]

The above answer works on Redhat-based distros (Fedora, CentOS, etc.)

If you receive the libXss.so.1 error on a Debian based distro (Ubuntu, Mint, etc.), then the equivalent fix is:

sudo apt-get install libxss1