Fedora 30 matlab start issue

I'm running Fedora 30 beta and the installation process went smoothly with default settings. However it won't boot and I get the following error:

"MATLAB is selecting SOFTWARE OPENGL rendering.

/usr/local/bin/matlab: line 1233: lsb_release: command not found

/usr/local/MATLAB/R2019a/bin/glnxa64/MATLAB: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

Libcrypt.so.1 is part of glibc package which is already installed as glibc-2.29-9.fc30.x86_64.

Why doesn't matlab find this package?

Answer 1

[Ayan Banerjee]

Fedora 30 ships with libcrypt version 2. R2019a requires libcrypt version 1. By running dnf provides libcrypt.so.1, we can see that the legacy version 1 is provided by the package libcrypt-compat. You have to just install this package using dnf (dnf install libcrypt-compat).

[tzycce]

So it seems. I don't know why I got that result. Thanks!

[Menno Hofste]

For me the package name was libxcrypt-compat, note the x.

[Andrew Cavanaugh]

That was the package for me, however I still get the same error when trying to open Matlab (even post re-boot). I'm sure re-installing Matlab will fix it, but that seems excessive.

[Lucas Hermann]

had the same issue, thank you so much!

Answer 2

[Nima shafiee]

thank you so much, that error solved

MATLAB 2018b fails to start on Fedora 30

but Matlab hang in Welcome

[Nima shafiee]

solved !!

see this:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/399207-matlab-does-not-start-on-fedora-28

and

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/364727-why-does-matlab-crash-on-linux-fedora-26-with-a-segmentation-violation-r2017b-or-later#answer_289066

Answer 3

[Johannes Kalliauer]

The answer from https://tinkertailorsoldiersponge.com/blog/matlab-r2020a-on-fedora-32

1) install XFCE4

sudo dnf install libxcrypt-compat libnsl
sudo dnf groupinstall -y "Xfce Desktop"

2)Restart computer

3)Remove libcrypto.so.1.1 (or rename)

cd ~/Downloads/matlab_R2020a_glnxa64/bin/glnxa64
mv libcrypto.so.1.1 libcrypto.so.1.1.old

4)Run the installer (recommend not as sudo, since some licensing depend on login-name)

cd ~/Downloads/matlab_R2020a_glnxa64
./install