a blank window with Matlab installation under a WSL(ubuntu 20.04)

Hello. Dear Matlab experts

I'm using WSL with ubuntu 20.04 environment with Xming Server

I have installed the Matlab under windwos but meet a problem when I tried to install in ubuntu 20.04 like this when I use

sudo ./install

a blank window jumps up

My question is how to solve this? Thanks

Answer 1

[Abhijeet]

Hi Wei,

I can understand that you are unable to install MATLAB on ubuntu 20.04 using the ‘sudo ./install’ command.

I suggest that you try executing the following command in the terminal to resolve the issue.

xhost +SI:localuser:root 

For more information related to MATLAB installer hang issue on Ubuntu 20.04, please refer to the following MATLAB answer post

• https://in.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/1459909-installer-hang-when-installing-matlab-r2021b-as-root-on-ubuntu-20-04