Cannot start installer on Fedora Linux - symbol lookup error: UCNV_FROM_​U_CALLBACK​_ESCAPE_WI​TH_INVISIB​LE_CHARS_7​2

I'm trying to install Matlab 2024a on Fedora Linux 38 and 39 without desktop environment and for both versions I'm getting error:

./install -inputFile installer_input.txt 
matlab_R2024a_Linux/bin/glnxa64/MathWorksProductInstaller: matlab_R2024a_Linux/bin/glnxa64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.30' not found (required by /lib64/libicuuc.so.72)

which can be solved by deleting bin/glnxa64/libstdc++.so.6.

After that I'm getting error about symbol lookup error:

./install -inputFile installer_input.txt 
2024a/matlab_R2024a_Linux/bin/glnxa64/MathWorksProductInstaller: symbol lookup error: matlab_R2024a_Linux_Fedora/bin/glnxa64/libmwi18n.so: undefined symbol: UCNV_FROM_U_CALLBACK_ESCAPE_WITH_INVISIBLE_CHARS_72

Can it be solved or is it unsolvable incompatibility between system libs and Matlab ones?

Answer 1

[Maneet Kaur Bagga]

Hi Martin,

As per my understanding you are encountering an error while installing R2024a version of MATLAB on Fedora 38 and 39 Linux machine. Following the MathWorks Documentation Fedora is not officially supported, although "MATLAB is tested and fully qualified on Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and SuSE. However, it will still run on most popular distributions of Linux, provided it is a full desktop installation of the distribution. MATLAB is not supported on minimal or server distributions. A minimal installation may not contain all libraries that MATLAB requires."

You may refer to the following system requirements of R2024a MATLAB to know which distributions are supported:

https://www.mathworks.com/support/requirements/matlab-linux.html

Also, please refer to the following MATLAB Answer for better understanding:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/98599-why-will-matlab-not-start-up-properly-on-my-linux-machine

Hope this helps!