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badhat

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Registered: 2011-01-30

Posts: 112

MATLAB quits and closes (with Synapse - Semantic Launcher)

I just installed the Unix's version of MATLAB 2010b from my school. Anyway, when I run it I get an error about "lib64/libc.so.6" but that isn't what is troubling me (and I think that is related to my 64-bit Java JRE installation.

The issue is that even after linking the program /usr/local/MATLAB/R2010b/bin/matlab to /usr/local/bin/MATLAB, I cannot launch it except by terminal! Running through command line will open MATLAB fine (with the libc.so.6 error), but if I try to use Synapse [https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44051] it just quits after showing the initialization splash for MATLAB.

I know that the permissions for the file are for root, as I linked it from /usr/local/MATLAB/R2010b/bin/matlab (with sudo ln -s) but shouldn't any application placed into /usr/local/bin/ be executable by any user? I can execute from the terminal without any superuser privileges...

badhat

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Registered: 2011-01-30

Posts: 112

Re: MATLAB quits and closes (with Synapse - Semantic Launcher)

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Army

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Registered: 2007-12-07

Posts: 1,784

Re: MATLAB quits and closes (with Synapse - Semantic Launcher)

I might have the same problem, I just installed matlab and I can run it by executing matlab in the terminal, but it doesn't work using dmenu_run.

badhat

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Registered: 2011-01-30

Posts: 112

Re: MATLAB quits and closes (with Synapse - Semantic Launcher)

This is old, but I figured that I would give my solution:

when executing the application from a launcher, simply append the -desktop argument.

/usr/local/bin/matlab -desktop

I found on another forum that this tells the application not to depend on a shell/terminal that opened it.