I tried to make a gnome launcher but it does not seem to work.
How to open matlab in linux.
Host name of the x window display matlab uses for output.
Otherwise the value in the environment is used.
By default the commande matlab on the terminal try to open the 2017a version and failed even after i did what you said.
You can also do this after matlab was started by running the same commands as we had in linux.
To open matlab type on the console matlab.
Note matlab does not recommend to be used as root unless necessary.
To start matlab on linux platforms type matlab at the operating system prompt.
From the terminal type tar xvf r2019a tar then press enter.
Matlabroot is the name of the folder in which you installed matlab.
Pwd to show current working directory.
The final value is normally a colon separated list of four sublists each of which could be empty.
If you have multiple releases of matlab installed you will have multiple icons for matlab in your applications folder corresponding to each release of matlab.
Matlab ignores display if the nodisplay argument is passed.
Download the linux installer file and the standalone edition license file to your downloads directory.
Finally matlab is installed and ready to use.
I just downloaded matlab 2017b while there is the 2017a version on my computer version i do not own the licence.
The command will launch matlab which will ask for e mail address and password.
To see the folder type matlabroot.
Press ctrl alt t to open a terminal window type cd downloads then enter.
If you did not set up symbolic links in the installation procedure then type matlabroot bin matlab.
Sadly matlab doesn t create one for us automatically after the installation like it should have done so we ll need to create the launcher manually.
Final load library path.
Navigate to the directory you want to use as matlab working directory the directory where your scripts are stored.
Linux by default the matlab installer will create a symbolic link in usr local bin.
Linux is case sensitive type all commands exactly as written.
Cd to change directory.
I don t want to have to open a terminal window every time i want to launch matlab on linux.
After starting matlab the desktop opens.
The value of xdisplay passed with the display argument to the script is used.
The command i gave was.
We don t want to always open the terminal and run the above command each time we want to open matlab.