How do I uninstall MATLAB or other MathWorks products on a Linux machine?

I would like to uninstall MATLAB or other MathWorks Products on or Linux machine.

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

There is no uninstaller for MathWorks products on Linux. To remove MATLAB, you simply need to delete the MATLAB installation following the instructions below:

1. Remove the entire root directory using the 'rm -rf' command, ex:

[root@localhost ~] rm -rf /usr/local/MATLAB/R2010b

2. Remove any symlinks to binaries on the path, ex:

[root@localhost ~] rm /usr/local/bin/matlab /usr/local/bin/mcc /usr/local/bin/mex /usr/local/bin/mbuild

[Donald Dansereau]

Don't forget to remove the downloaded files.

I've been running the linux install script as sudo for years, meaning the download files have been very stealthily accumulating in /root/Downloads. If you're in the same boat, try:

sudo rm -r /root/Downloads/MathWorks

... or if you don't install as root, do

rm -r ~/Downloads/MathWorks

[Robin chacko]

What should I do If the lmdown script is not found in the MATLAB's etc directory.?

[Pampa Dey]

I have used the command 1., but it is not removed.

showing "Permission denied".

How shold I remove it?

Please help me anyone.

Thanks,

Pampa

[Kerecsen]

Use sudo.

[Zhizhuo Li]

add sudo works for me

[ADRIÀ]

If the user is "root", sudo is not necessary.

Answer 2

[Amine MATOUK]

Hello,

Instructions 1,2, and 4 didn't excute for me,

Thanks to explain.

[Steve Meeker]

Hello , I have performed all these steps on Centos 7 and the files when I rerun tell me no such file in directory, I type matlab into the Konsole and 2016a comes right up ideas?

[Walter Roberson]

At the Konsole give the commands

which matlab
alias | grep matlab

and see what is returned. I suspect you might have an alias pointing to a different version.

Answer 3

[SGUNITN]

@Annie

use superuser in order to delete the files. It might be privilege issue. sudo su

Answer 4

[peishenfei]

Instructions 4, why does my file /usr/local/bin/mex points to /home/xxx/app/texlive/bin/x86_64-linux/mex? Thanks in advance

Answer 5

[Tech Support]

Hi Peishenfei,

If you are still experiencing this issue, please contact MathWorks support:

https://www.mathworks.com/support/contact_us.html

-Justin