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I have one problem so please help me. I have Ubuntu 11.10 and want to install Matlab; I searched a lot in internet but have not found the exact way yet. Please help me guys, I need it very much.

I know command line, but I don't know what kind of command I should use; I have installed 32 bit library ia32-libs, so what is additionally necessary?

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please update your post with what version of matlab are you trying to install ??? did you get any error ?? – hhlp Nov 12 '11 at 11:55
nearest version i want,and i have not started instalation because dont know what to do – dato Nov 12 '11 at 11:57
why did you removed answer? – dato Nov 12 '11 at 12:53
There is a simple set of steps for Ubuntu. Not sure how you've missed it. help.ubuntu.com/community/MATLAB – mikewhatever Nov 12 '11 at 13:23
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You'll have to obtain a MATLAB install cd, unfortunately. Apart from a small selection of codecs and plugins, there are no licensed applications (that I know of) in the ubuntu repositories. There are a couple of paid applications in the Software Centre, but I checked and MATLAB isn't there.

You can either download a trial from www.mathworks.com and use that until you can obtain a full version, or you can try using spyder, which is an open-source matlab-like python IDE, available on the repositories.

Also, don't bother with wine (I can't comment on other people's answers because I don't have the reputation yet). You'll run into exactly the same problem of needing an install cd.

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Just to add that besides Python + NumPy (which I prefer also) there is also Octave which is highly compatible with Matlab. Without GUI at the moment unfortunatelly – zetah Nov 12 '11 at 14:26
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While I've used Matlab at university on a Linux terminal, at home I used Octave much more often. The code is very similar between the two and *.m files work almost interchangeably between the two. There are a few of the more obscure functions or Matlab which aren't supported but by and large is works very well.

Octave also has a much smaller memory footprint and so can run much smoother on a laptop, or other resource constrained machine.

You can find it in the Ubuntu Software Centre, and for more details visit the octave project website.

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Have you tried wine? you will find it in Ubuntu software center or in terminal sudo apt-get install wine

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and can i install matlab using wine? – dato Nov 12 '11 at 13:13
mmm i have never tried to install it on Ubuntu (so i don't know) but after installing wine it can be installed like windows by double click on the install icon – Naruto Nov 12 '11 at 13:24
There is a matlab version native to Linux, buying a windows licence would be very wrong. – enedene Nov 12 '11 at 18:51

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