activate 2012b on ubuntu 15.10 with mathwors account

i am trying to activate 2012b on ubuntu 15.10 i get the following message: Error 1,714: Unable to activate your machine. The activation process cannot detect a valid Host ID which utilizes a currently supported naming convention. Please refer to the following solution ID, to help resolve this issue: 1-661QJD

i was able to successfully activate 2014b on the same system. any way to activate 2012b?

thanks

Answer 1

[Rohit Jain]

Refer to the answer by MathWorks Support in below link:

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/100235-why-can-t-i-activate-matlab-or-start-the-license-manager-in-a-newer-linux-environment

If this does not help, contact the MathWorks Installation team.