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# matlab launcher script / installation instructions for new linux machines
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## Context
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matlab ships with shitty outdated qt and c++ libraries and it breaks on
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anything from the current decade.
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this fixes it by making your pc fall back on the normal libraries.
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also we're gonna do this in a user-owned folder because that just seems like a
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good idea
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## Installation
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```sh
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sudo mkdir -p /opt/MATLAB
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sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /opt/MATLAB
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# get the matlab package manager and install matlab to the directory
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wget https://www.mathworks.com/mpm/glnxa64/mpm
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./mpm install --release=R2026a --destination=/opt/MATLAB/R2026a --products MATLAB Simulink
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# broken libraries begone
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cd /opt/MATLAB/R2026a/bin/glnxa64
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mkdir exclude
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mv libfreetype.so* exclude/
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# ditto
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cd /opt/MATLAB/R2026a/sys/os/glnxa64
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mkdir exclude
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mv libstdc++.so.6* exclude/
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```
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after installing, run `matlab.sh` to launch matlab
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## ACHTUNG! Gnome users et al.
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Even if the installation works, launching the program may not. if you see an error similar to this:
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```
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dbus[27716]: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up: see the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this issue. (Failed to open "/mathworks/devel/bat/B3p1/build/3p/install/15160996/glnxa64/dbus/var/lib/dbus/machine-id": No such file or directory; Failed to open "/etc/machine-id": No such file or directory)
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```
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you likely need to run the following command as root:
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```bash
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dbus-uuidgen --ensure=/etc/machine-id
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```
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