Matlab R2016b Ubuntu 16.06 | Installation error

"The installer cannot be run from inside the DVD directory ..." etc. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS x64 I'm executing the file within the extracted folder. What's the problem?

[ema berna]

I had the same issue but I fixed doing these:

Extract R2016b_glnxa64_dvd1.iso to ~/MATLAB

Extract R2016b_glnxa64_dvd2.iso to ~/MATLAB2

Copy all files from MATLAB2 to MATLAB (merging), including the hidden file .dvd2

Call the install script inside of ~/MATLAB

And, don't forget to check the directory permission

[Nikhil Boddula]

How can install after merging the file. Can you the proper steps.

[Alex Zahonero]

I had the same issue, but even after merging the files out of the iso directories, it still giving me the same error message... Any other way to fix it?

[Achintha Iroshan]

I had the same issue and I could solve it by installing as the root.

sudo su

root@computer : location/install

Answer 1

[Kojiro Saito]

There's a help for installation from DVD on Linux.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/install/ug/install-mathworks-software.html?s_tid=gn_loc_drop

NOTE: Do not run the installation from inside the DVD root. Start the installation from a directory outside the DVD root.

Does it help you?

[ErCondor]

Yes I got it, thank you very much. Unfortunately I don't practically know how to run the script

sudo ./install

without being into the folder. Can you please help me?

[Kojiro Saito]

As follows,

(1) Insert DVD.

(2) It is automatically mounted on "/media" directory.

In my Debian machine, it's "/media/MATLAB_R2016B".

If mount is not done automatically, you should do it manually, for example,

 mount -o exec  /media/cdrom0

(3) Open Terminal in the mounted directory and run the following code.

./install

(without sudo)

(4) After several seconds, installation wizard will appear.

[Walter Roberson]

sudo ~/R2016b*/install

[Danzhou Wu]

I got it，thanks

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

You cannot be cd'd to the extracted folder (or to the DVD) at the time you try to do the extraction, as it needs to install some things into the current directory and the DVD is not writable. You need to cd to your home directory and give the command shown in the error message.

Answer 3

[ErCondor]

Thank you Matlab friends! It worked out! I'll now enjoy learning Matlab. I'm so grateful!

[Kojiro Saito]

It's good news, enjoy MATLAB!

Please accept the answers also for the future viewers.

Answer 4

[ErCondor]

Hi everyone,

unfortunately I've got another problem that I cannot solve.

I normally mounted the DVD nr2 but Ubuntu doesn't recognize the source.

[Kojiro Saito]

Are you using 2 DVD disks? Did you eject DVD1 first before mounting DVD2?

[ErCondor]

Yes absolutely. How can I get around this problem? I'm trying in different ways with the terminal, but none of them is working.

[Kojiro Saito]

I suggest it's better to contact MathWorks Support team.

[Klapeyron]

I solved this problem on my arch linux, I think it will works for Ubuntu too. First of all, I unmounted dvd and swap .iso filenames. After this operation, if you mount dvd2 as dvd1, matlab installer will continue installation

[Julio Larco]

I had the same issue but I fixed doing these:

First extract R2016b_glnxa64_dvd1.iso to ~/MATLAB

Call the install script inside of ~/MATLAB

cd /MATLAB

./install

when apear the message:

• Eject DVD1 and insert DVD2 to continue..

I mount R2016b_glnxa64_dvd2.iso in the directory

sudo mount -o loop -t iso9660 R2016b_glnxa64_dvd2.iso /MATLAB

and click Ok to continue to installation.

[Zan Lian]

I find a way if you can not mount as what I met.

Extract DVD1 to dir1 and DVD2 to dir2.

Install: dir1/install

when apear the message: Eject DVD1 and insert DVD2 to continue..

Then

mv dir1 dir3

mv dir2 dir1