Installing MATLAB on Debian Jessie

I heard yesterday that we can install Matlab on Linux computers. And I tried it today, thankfully, I made it 🙂 Here, the steps that how to install it. Actually, the installer on Linux is very similar to the installer in Windows; even steps are same.

Before installing, we must have license key or MathWorks account. I had license key that is academic key for my university so the steps following for installing with license key.

When downloading finished, there are 2 files in my Downloads directory:

R2017a_glnxa64_dvd1.iso and R2017a_glnxa64_dvd2.iso

1. Extract iso files, we can see 2 directories:

R2017a_glnxa64_dvd1/ and R2017a_glnxa64_dvd2/

2. Run installation, but there is a warn message from Matlab Documentation for this step:

Do not run the installation from inside the DVD root. Start the installation from a directory outside the DVD root.

so, we have to run the installation from outside the root directory(R2017a_glnxa64_dvd1 directory).

sudo R2017a_glnxa64_dvd1/install
or, you can use “&” character end of command for installing independent from terminal.
sudo R2017a_glnxa64_dvd1/install &
3. Installer will open,
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3.2. I selected “Use a File Installation Key” because I have a key
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3.7. In this step, select license.dat with file selector (Browse button) and continue.
3.8. Click this box and active for opening MATLAB via matlab command from terminal.
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3.11. When you see this message, we have to run some commands for remove the need for DVD.
Open a new terminal and, run commands:

sudo rm -rf R2017a_glnxa64_dvd1/

sudo mv R2017a_glnxa64_dvd2/ R2017a_glnxa64_dvd1



Then, click OK. Installation will continue.
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3.14. Finally, you can see “Finished” 🙂

For run MATLAB,