Intall MATLAB on Linux without GUI

My Linux machine is a VM in the cloud, and my Linux knowledge is minimal (I normally work on Windows). The Linux machine has Internet access and I use it via SSH and BASH. I started by using a Windows Browser to download MATLAB, which came in a .zip file, so I extracted the files to a separate directory and used SCP to copy all of that to the Linux VM. I also prepared the installation input file and license. When I ran install on Linux, I discovered that some of the files were "broken" symlinks. For example, bin/glnxa64/libicuda.so.67 is a file containing the text libicuda.so.67.1, and should be a symlink to libicuda.so.67.1.

How can I download the installation files on Linux without GUI (and without a browser)? Or, alternatively, how can I preserve the symlinks in the .zip file on Windows?

Thanks in advance for your patience.

[Thomas Ligon]

I found this site

https://de.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/258345-downloading-matlab-from-command-line

and tried a modified version

wget http://esd.mathworks.com/R2021b/Linux_x86_64/INST_091492/matlab_R2021b_glnxa64.zip

but that results in ERROR 403: Forbidden. What is the correct address?

[MJFcoNaN]

Hello,

Why not upload the .zip file by scp, and unzip it on Linux?

[Thomas Ligon]

Thanks! I tried that and it still looks like broken symlinks. When I enter

tail libicudata.so.67 or cat libicudata.so.67

all I see is

libicudata.so.67.1.

PS: I also needed to install zip on the Linux VM, which I did with

sudo apt install zip

and then I was able to run

unzip matlab_R2021b_glnxa64.zip -d matlab_R2021b_glnxa64

Maybe I need some other tool for unzipping.

PS: When I tried to run install, I got a permission denied error, so I ran

chmod u=rwx,g=rwx,o=rwx install

but that problem has not been solved yet.

[Thomas Ligon]

Thanks again...I am making progress. This time, I downloaded the zip file and was very careful not to open it in Windows. After uploading and unzipping, I can see that the symlinks are correct. I can also see that install has -r-xr-xr-x, so it has execute permissions.

When I start install there are no error messages and it terminates immediately, so this will require some more work.

[Thomas Ligon]

Now I looked at the log files, and see

Unable to load product files. Product files must be in the same folder as the input file. For help getting the product files, see the installation documentation on

<a HREF="https://www.mathworks.com/pi_noprode_mpi_R2021b_glnxa64">MATLAB Answer</a>.

The link explains that this message can be produced when the product files are not in the correct place. Well, I have the directory structure created by the zip file where the unzip directory contains install, installer input, license, and directories such as bin.

Hill-VM-User-1@VMLx1:~/XInstall/MATLAB/matlab_R2021b_glnxa64$ ls -l

total 3600

-r--r--r-- 1 Hill-VM-User-1 Hill-VM-User-1 311 Jul 22 15:29 VersionInfo.xml

drwxrwxr-x 4 Hill-VM-User-1 Hill-VM-User-1 4096 Dec 23 13:31 archives

drwxrwxr-x 4 Hill-VM-User-1 Hill-VM-User-1 4096 Dec 23 13:31 bin

drwxrwxr-x 3 Hill-VM-User-1 Hill-VM-User-1 4096 Dec 23 13:31 cefclient

drwxrwxr-x 3 Hill-VM-User-1 Hill-VM-User-1 4096 Dec 23 13:31 extern

-r-xr-xr-x 1 Hill-VM-User-1 Hill-VM-User-1 8767 Jun 30 2021 install

-r--r--r-- 1 Hill-VM-User-1 Hill-VM-User-1 8828 May 25 2021 installer_input.txt

-rwxrwxr-x 1 Hill-VM-User-1 Hill-VM-User-1 8896 Dec 23 09:00 installer_input_1.txt

-rwxrwxr-x 1 Hill-VM-User-1 Hill-VM-User-1 2449 Dec 23 08:59 license.lic

-r--r--r-- 1 Hill-VM-User-1 Hill-VM-User-1 83018 Jul 21 2021 license_agreement.txt

-r--r--r-- 1 Hill-VM-User-1 Hill-VM-User-1 692984 Jan 20 2022 mathworks_installation_help.pdf

-r--r--r-- 1 Hill-VM-User-1 Hill-VM-User-1 704128 Sep 30 2021 mathworks_installation_help_es.pdf

-r--r--r-- 1 Hill-VM-User-1 Hill-VM-User-1 588854 Jan 26 2022 mathworks_installation_help_ja_JP.pdf

-r--r--r-- 1 Hill-VM-User-1 Hill-VM-User-1 700930 Mar 29 2022 mathworks_installation_help_ko_KR.pdf

-r--r--r-- 1 Hill-VM-User-1 Hill-VM-User-1 797400 Mar 29 2022 mathworks_installation_help_zh_CN.pdf

-r--r--r-- 1 Hill-VM-User-1 Hill-VM-User-1 13651 Jul 21 2021 patents.txt

-r--r--r-- 1 Hill-VM-User-1 Hill-VM-User-1 7644 May 25 2021 readme.txt

drwxrwxr-x 3 Hill-VM-User-1 Hill-VM-User-1 4096 Dec 23 13:31 remote

drwxrwxr-x 10 Hill-VM-User-1 Hill-VM-User-1 4096 Dec 23 13:31 resources

drwxrwxr-x 4 Hill-VM-User-1 Hill-VM-User-1 4096 Dec 23 13:31 sys

-r--r--r-- 1 Hill-VM-User-1 Hill-VM-User-1 245 Dec 28 2013 trademarks.txt

drwxrwxr-x 4 Hill-VM-User-1 Hill-VM-User-1 4096 Dec 23 13:31 ui

[Thomas Ligon]

I have tried some more and this leads to two questions:

1) Do I need an iso file?

2) Is this possible for a Home license?

Matlab silent Installation on Linux

says "...the offline installation method is not available on Home and Student licenses since there are no license administrators for these types of licenses..." but the site referenced does not make that clear to me.