Fedora 30 Matlab Not Installing

I'm running fedora 30 and attempting to install the latest version of Matlab.

When I run the installer, I get the following output

$ sudo ./install
Preparing installation files ...
Installing ...
Finished

However, I do not get any popup, and matlab does not appear to be installed.

I have installed libxcrypt-compat and libnsl, but matlab is still not installing properly.

Answer 1

[Patrick Gorman]

Answered my own question. The Matlab Installer does not launch in the Gnome Desktop environment on Fedora 30, so you must use another Desktop Environment. Once it is installed, you may launch matlab directly from Gnome.

I found that the installer works in the xfce desktop environment. In order to installl xfce, I did the following:

1. Install requirements and Xfce

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

2. Restart computer

3. In window to enter password, click the settings logo below password bar and select to boot into Xcfe

3. Go to .../matlab-installation-directory and run install

cd /path/to/matlab-installation-directory
sudo ./install

4. Follow install wizard as normal.

Optional:

5. Remove Xfce Desktop Environment

sudo dnf groupremove -y "Xfce" 
sudo dnf remove -y libxfce4*