Ubuntu: How can I install Matlab from the Mathworks website? (3 Solutions!!)
Channel: Roel Van de Paar
Date: 2019-09-02

Ubuntu: How can I install Matlab from the Mathworks website?


The Question: When downloading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATLAB from the Mathworks
website, I am prompted to download an .flp file. When I open this JAVA file I
shortly see a screen where some data is processed and after that nothing ever
happens again.
Does anybody have an idea how to install Matlab this way?

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== This solution helped 2 people ==
In order to install Matlab using this installer, you have to install the
official Sun Java JRE. This is no longer available in Maverick's repositories.
One workaround for this is to select the archives from Lucid and install JAVA
from there.

== This solution helped 1 person ==
You need to install Sun Java from the partner repository, this can be done by
enabling the repository through the menu System＞Administration＞Software
Sources, in the "Other Software" tab check the one saying something with
partner.
Then install sun-java6-bin package and activate it by running
sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun
in a terminal.
Afterwards you should be able to run Matlab as you tried it before.

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