Why does MATLAB R2017b display erroneous message about libgiolibproxy.so on Ubuntu 17.10?

Why does MATLAB R2017b display the following erroneous message about libgiolibproxy.so on Ubuntu 17.10?

$ /usr/local/MATLAB/R2017b/bin/matlab
/usr/local/MATLAB/R2017b/bih/glnxa64/../../sys/os/glnxa64/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.9' not found (required by /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libproxy.so.1)
Failed to load module: /usr/lib/x864_64 linux gnu/gio/modules/libgiolibproxy.so

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

This error occurs when the version of Java JRE that ships with MATLAB loads a library outside of MATLAB which in turn is incompatible with the version of libstdc++.so.6 that ships with MATLAB.

To resolve the issue, please navigate to MATLAB R2017b installation location in your system and remove the “libstdc++.so.6” library file shipped with MATLAB R2017b, so that MATLAB will use the system version of that library:

<matlabroot>/sys/os/glnxa64

Note: Here <matlabroot> is the location in your system where MATLAB R2017b is installed.

Eg: ‘/usr/local/MATLAB/R2017B’.

Following are the commands to execute in linux shell to perform the above mentioned operation: (You may need root privilege)

# cd  /usr/local/MATLAB/R2017b   (or wherever you may have installed MATLAB)
# cd sys/os/glnxa64
# mkdir exclude
# mv libstdc++.so.6* exclude/
# exit