[SOLVED] Matlab installation problem

PolePosition · 2014-03-02 15:59:50

Hello,

I am using Arch for more than one year.
I have installed Matlab R2013b in the past and had no problem at all.
But today, I have tried to reinstall Matlab R2013b on this same Arch, without success : nothing happen ! I immediately get "Finished" in the Terminal !!
I have changed nothing during the time between now and the previous Matlab installation so I am wondering...

I have launched the installation process with "-v" flag to get more information about the problem, but I still have no details about what is the problem :

[bastien@zoulou MATLABISO]$ ./install --verbose
Preparing installation files ...
Installing ...
Finished
[bastien@zoulou MATLABISO]$ ./install -v
Preparing installation files ...
->  DVD                 = /opt/MATLABISO
->  ARCH                = glnxa64
->  DISPLAY             = :0.0
->  TESTONLY            = 0
->  JRE_LOC             = /tmp/mathworks_10629/sys/java/jre/glnxa64/jre
->  LD_LIBRARY_PATH     = /tmp/mathworks_10629/bin/glnxa64
 
Command to run:
/tmp/mathworks_10629/sys/java/jre/glnxa64/jre/bin/java -Xmx512m  -splash:"/opt/MATLABISO/java/splash.png" -Djava.ext.dirs=/tmp/mathworks_10629/sys/java/jre/glnxa64/jre/lib/ext:/tmp/mathworks_10629/java/jar:/tmp/mathworks_10629/java/jar/ja_jp:/tmp/mathworks_10629/java/jar/zh_cn:/tmp/mathworks_10629/java/jarext:/tmp/mathworks_10629/java/jarext/webservices:/tmp/mathworks_10629/java/jarext/webservices/mcr_dws_client:/tmp/mathworks_10629/java/jarext/webservices/ws_client_core:/tmp/mathworks_10629/java/jarext/guice:/tmp/mathworks_10629/java/jarext/axis2 com/mathworks/professionalinstaller/Launcher -root "/opt/MATLABISO" -tmpdir "/tmp/mathworks_10629" 
 
Installing ...
Finished
[bastien@zoulou MATLABISO]$

And now as root user :

[bastien@zoulou MATLABISO]$ su
Password: 
[root@zoulou MATLABISO]# ./install -v
Preparing installation files ...
->  DVD                 = /opt/MATLABISO
->  ARCH                = glnxa64
->  DISPLAY             = :0.0
->  TESTONLY            = 0
->  JRE_LOC             = /tmp/mathworks_10748/sys/java/jre/glnxa64/jre
->  LD_LIBRARY_PATH     = /tmp/mathworks_10748/bin/glnxa64
 
Command to run:
/tmp/mathworks_10748/sys/java/jre/glnxa64/jre/bin/java -Xmx512m  -splash:"/opt/MATLABISO/java/splash.png" -Djava.ext.dirs=/tmp/mathworks_10748/sys/java/jre/glnxa64/jre/lib/ext:/tmp/mathworks_10748/java/jar:/tmp/mathworks_10748/java/jar/ja_jp:/tmp/mathworks_10748/java/jar/zh_cn:/tmp/mathworks_10748/java/jarext:/tmp/mathworks_10748/java/jarext/webservices:/tmp/mathworks_10748/java/jarext/webservices/mcr_dws_client:/tmp/mathworks_10748/java/jarext/webservices/ws_client_core:/tmp/mathworks_10748/java/jarext/guice:/tmp/mathworks_10748/java/jarext/axis2 com/mathworks/professionalinstaller/Launcher -root "/opt/MATLABISO" -tmpdir "/tmp/mathworks_10748" 
 
Installing ...
Finished
[root@zoulou MATLABISO]#

The Arch is up to date (fresh pacman -Syu) has been run.

I have tried to run :

yaourt jre6-compat

Then install again Matlab but it change nothing.

Do you have an idea?

Last edited by PolePosition (2014-03-07 17:35:34)

Algernop · 2014-03-03 10:41:24

Try running it with it an explicit '-javadir' option. Like,

kdesu (or w/e works for you) ./install -javadir  /usr/<w/e>/jre

. See if that does anything.

Neburski · 2014-03-03 11:43:08

PolePosition wrote:

But today, I have tried to reinstall Matlab R2013b on this same Arch, without success : nothing happen ! I immediately get "Finished" in the Terminal !!
I have changed nothing during the time between now and the previous Matlab installation so I am wondering...

I'm not really sure what the issue is. You claim that you haven't changed anything between your previous Matlab installation and now. Then why are you trying to reinstall Matlab?
We can't really know easily how the installer for Matlab works, but it could be that it first checks if the files are already existing and if they exist then it might not overwrite them any more. In such a case it's quite clear that the installation will finish quite quickly.
Have you tried getting help from Mathworks?

The bottom line is: no error logs means we can't help you.

Last edited by Neburski (2014-03-03 11:43:54)

Kooothor · 2014-03-03 17:58:41

Just gonna leave this here and move away…
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/
http://julialang.org/

Algernop · 2014-03-04 08:59:36

Kooothor, nothing to add except: thanks for the heads up. Looks like I'll be rerouting some of my Matlab addiction .

PolePosition · 2014-03-07 17:34:20

Hi,

Thanks for your answers!

The option "javadir" was the right way to investigate!

[bastien@zoulou MATLABISO]$ su -c 'find / | grep jre'
....
/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk/jre/lib/cmm/PYCC.pf
/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk/jre/lib/cmm/LINEAR_RGB.pf
/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk/jre/lib/cmm/GRAY.pf
/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk/jre/lib/cmm/CIEXYZ.pf
/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk/jre/lib/cmm/sRGB.pf
/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk/jre/lib/management-agent.jar
/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk/jre/lib/psfontj2d.properties
/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk/jre/bin
/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk/jre/bin/tnameserv
....
[bastien@zoulou MATLABISO]$

Then I just run:

[bastien@zoulou MATLABISO]$ ./install -javadir /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk/jre/

And it works!

Thank you again, guys.

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Last edited by PolePosition (2014-03-07 17:35:20)

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#1 2014-03-02 15:59:50

[SOLVED] Matlab installation problem

#2 2014-03-03 10:41:24

Re: [SOLVED] Matlab installation problem

#3 2014-03-03 11:43:08

Re: [SOLVED] Matlab installation problem

#4 2014-03-03 17:58:41

Re: [SOLVED] Matlab installation problem

#5 2014-03-04 08:59:36

Re: [SOLVED] Matlab installation problem

#6 2014-03-07 17:34:20

Re: [SOLVED] Matlab installation problem

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