Having trouble running matlab on linux

Hi,

Thank you in advance for your help.

I have successfully installed matlab 2015b on my linux machine. Originally when I tried to run matlab from my terminal I would get the following error:

"Cannot locate com/mathworks/jmi/OpaqueJavaInterface"

I made sure my MATLAB_JAVA path was set and that everything was good but was still getting the error.

So I removed the Matlab files and reinstalled it.

Now I am getting the following when I try to run matlab from the terminal:

/usr/local/bin/matlab: line 1240: 17461 Aborted                 (core dumped) $MATLAB/bin/$ARCH/need_softwareopengl $display > /dev/null 2>&1

MATLAB is selecting SOFTWARE OPENGL rendering.

And matlab doesn't open. I have no idea why this isn't working. I have listed the output of the matlab -e command below.

/usr/local/bin/matlab: line 1240: 17505 Aborted                 (core dumped) $MATLAB/bin/$ARCH/need_softwareopengl $display > /dev/null 2>&1

MATLAB is selecting SOFTWARE OPENGL rendering.

XDG_VTNR=1

XDG_SESSION_ID=c1

MATLABPATH=/usr/local/toolbox/local

TERM=xterm-256color

VTE_VERSION=4201

SHELL=/bin/bash

ALTERAOCLSDKROOT=/home/zaid/altera/15.0/hld

WINDOWID=37748968

OLDPWD=/usr/local

QSYS_ROOTDIR=/home/zaid/altera/15.0/quartus/sopc_builder/bin

GTK_MODULES=canberra-gtk-module

USER=zaid

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/sys/opengl/lib/glnxa64:/usr/local/sys/os/glnxa64:/usr/local/bin/glnxa64:/usr/local/extern/lib/glnxa64:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk/jre//lib/amd64/native_threads:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk/jre//lib/amd64/server

AUTOMOUNT_MAP=

MATLAB_JAVA=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk/jre/

OSG_LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/sys/openscenegraph/lib/glnxa64

TOOLBOX=/usr/local/toolbox

MAIL=/var/spool/mail/zaid

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/default/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl

PWD=/home/zaid

EDITOR=geany

LANG=en_US.UTF-8

XFILESEARCHPATH=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk/jre//lib/locale/%L/%T/%N%S:

BASEMATLABPATH=

HOME=/home/zaid

XDG_SEAT=seat0

SHLVL=4

MATLAB=/usr/local

LOGNAME=zaid

DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus

ARCH=glnxa64

WINDOWPATH=1

XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000

DISPLAY=:0

XAUTHORITY=/home/zaid/.Xauthority

_=/usr/bin/env

[Walter Roberson]

Software OpenGL is not supported for Linux in R2015b, if I understand the documentation.

That does not explain why it thinks it needs it.

[Zaid Qureshi]

But I have my mesa-libgl packages installed and I have confirmed I have direct openGL rendering support from my graphics card. How do I force it to use hardware acceleration?

[Walter Roberson]

http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/opengl.html

Ummm, maybe it is only the "opengl software" command that is not present on Linux and possibly it is always "opengl software", considering the first example there that mentions MESA.

[Florian Werner]

I had your problem too when I tried to get the R2016a running. It turned out, that the folder .matlab in my home directory was owned by root and no by my user.

sudo chown -cR user:user .matlab

and MATLAB runs again. Worked out for me at least, hopefully for you too.

[Alexander Gehrke]

Florian Werner's approach actually solved the problem for me! Apparantly an old Matlab installation changed all the permissions in .matlab