Judson's Notes

First, I logged into Mathworks and downloaded my products - Matlab R2011b and my toolboxes. I followed their instructions on how to install it.

After installing, I need to do some configuring:

First, add Matlab to the menu. Install alacarte if necessary:

sudo apt-get install alacarte

Open alacarte and choose the category you want (Science for me), and choose "New Item".  Choose "Application", type in Matlab for the name and 

/usr/local/MATLAB/R2011b/bin/matlab -desktop

Now I want to copy in my old path definitions:

sudo cp pathdef.m /usr/local/MATLAB/R2011b/toolbox/local/pathdef.m

Now we need to make a link for Matlab to see the C libraries. Choose the right command depending on 32 or 64 bit:

sudo ln -s /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so /lib/libc.so.6
sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so /lib64/libc.so.6

To enable running external programs, other c++ and fortran libraries need to be properly updated and linked. Look at the output of this command:

ll /usr/local/MATLAB/R2011b/sys/os/glnxa64/

It is likely that these two links exist:

libgfortran.so.3 -> libgfortran.so.3.0.0
libstdc++.so.6 -> libstdc++.so.6.0.10

Search for these libraries on your machine:

locate libgfortran.so
locate libstdc++.so

Look at the output of those commands for newer version in either /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu or /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu. Update Matlab's links to point to these newer versions:

sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgfortran.so.3.0.0 /usr/local/MATLAB/R2011b/sys/os/glnx86/libgfortran.so.3
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.16 /usr/local/MATLAB/R2011b/sys/os/glnx86/libstdc++.so.6

or, for 64-bit:

sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgfortran.so.3.0.0 /usr/local/MATLAB/R2011b/sys/os/glnxa64/libgfortran.so.3
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.16 /usr/local/MATLAB/R2011b/sys/os/glnxa64/libstdc++.so.6