Installing MatLab 2018b software on LInux: install_unix not found

Hello everybody,

I am getting the /home/mikael/.matlab/a

pp_installer_cache/R2018b/glnxa64/installagent/install: 1: exec: /home/mikael/.matlab/app_installer_cache/R2018b/glnxa64/installagent/bin/glnxa64/install_unix: not found

error while trying to install compiled MatLab software on my new Linux Mint 19.3 computer. This is quite strange, as I have already done the same routine for at least 5 times on different computers with the same operating system and similar hardware in our company. The MRE 2018b installs fine, but any compiled software gives this error. And yes:

• my computer is 64 bit
• I re-installed MRE 2018b using unzip
• my gcc is quite new
• I did use sudo when installing

This issue has been adressed in the MATLAB forum before, but the suggested solutions have been trivial, and none has done me any good.

Here is the output of inxi -Fxz

System:

Host: TheRevenant Kernel: 5.4.0-47-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc

v: 7.5.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.4.8 Distro: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia

base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic

Machine:

Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME X570-P v: Rev X.0x

serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1407 date: 04/02/2020

Battery:

Device-1: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard charge: 55%

status: Discharging

CPU:

Topology: 8-Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen

L2 cache: 4096 KiB

flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm

bogomips: 114985

Speed: 2196 MHz min/max: 2200/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2196 2: 2196

3: 2191 4: 2192 5: 2196 6: 2195 7: 2191 8: 2195 9: 2195 10: 2192 11: 2195

12: 2192 13: 2194 14: 2196 15: 2192 16: 2195

Graphics:

Device-1: NVIDIA G98 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2] vendor: ASUSTeK

driver: nouveau v: kernel bus ID: 07:00.0

Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: nouveau

unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz

OpenGL: renderer: NV98 v: 3.3 Mesa 20.0.8 direct render: Yes

Audio:

Device-1: AMD vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel

bus ID: 09:00.4

Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-47-generic

Network:

Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet

vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 03:00.0

IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>

Device-2: Realtek RTL8188EUS 802.11n Wireless Network Adapter type: USB

driver: r8188eu bus ID: 1-4:3

IF: wlxd03745760657 state: down mac: <filter>

Drives:

Local Storage: total: 945.97 GiB used: 69.87 GiB (7.4%)

ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 QVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB

ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB model: USB DISK 3.0 size: 14.46 GiB

Partition:

ID-1: / size: 915.40 GiB used: 30.51 GiB (3.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2

ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/dm-0

Sensors:

System Temperatures: cpu: 42.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 51 C

Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A

Info:

Processes: 313 Uptime: 47m Memory: 62.78 GiB used: 748.5 MiB (1.2%)

Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 7.5.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.20

inxi: 3.0.32

Answer 1

[Raymond Norris]

Hi Mikael,

Probably best to reach out to Technical Support ([e-mail]).

Raymond