Questions tagged [matlab]
MATLAB (matrix laboratory) is a numerical computing environment and fourth-generation programming language.
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How do I get back to nano after hitting Ctrl-Z if I have no shell prompt (in Matlab session)
I'm using nano inside a MATLAB session that is running inside a screen (-x) terminal. I accidentally hit Ctrl-Z and it immediately leaves nano, prints "Use "fg" to return to nano", but does not show ...
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How to create launcher icon
I recently installed Matlab R2013a and it is working fine, however the only way I can start it is by running /usr/local/MATLAB/R2013a/bin/matlab in the terminal. If I type in matlab it says command ...
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How do I make a Matlab launcher for Unity?
I'm trying to install a Matlab R2011a launcher for Unity in Ubuntu 12.04. I've tried this guide (although I know it's for 11.10 and mentions that even 11.10 is an unsupported OS for Matlab R2011a) but ...
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Comparison of Octave, Spyder, Freemat and Scilab as alternatives to MATLAB
I am trying to find an alternative for MATLAB and have so far found:
GNU Octave
Spyder
FreeMat
Scilab
I'm trying to find which is the best alternative to MATLAB. I'm particularly concerned with ...
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How can I launch MATLAB 2012?
I have a problem with the MATLAB 2012 installation.
After having installed it using Alt + F2 and having used gksudo nautilus, I have installed MATLAB in the correct folder, /usr/local/MATLAB/R2012a.
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Doesn't Matlab work on ubuntu 16.04?
MATLAB Crash Dump:
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Segmentation violation detected at Thu Mar 3 01:40:49 2016
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How do I add Matlab to the main menu?
I was trying to add the installed matlab to the menu of Applications under Ubuntu 10.10.
I clicked Gnome-Menu -> Preference -> Main Menu -> Programming -> New Item, where I input the Matlab file .../...
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How to Increase Ubuntu's Virtual Memory and/or Swap for Matlab?
Situation: fix Out of Memory errors in Ubuntu's Matlab
Goal: allocate some virtual memory and/or Swap on external HDD/SSD; the read/write decrease from 20 GBps to 0.1 GBps, which is ok!
Terminology: ...
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How to run exe file in Ubuntu [duplicate]
Is it possible to run a .exe file in Ubuntu in a script?
For example a simple Matlab code like this:
system("dir/WAV2RAW.exe")
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Which software(s) can serve as Mathematica, Maple or MATLAB equivalents?
I'd like to know the equivalents of Mathematica, Maple, or MATLAB on Ubuntu, since all are costly.
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How to install MATLAB on Ubuntu 14.04?
How to install MATLAB in Ubuntu 14.04? I searched in USC, but it only has some extension for MATLAB.
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How to completely uninstall MATLAB?
Recently, I installed MATLAB from the Ubuntu Software and uninstalled afterwards. However, when I do a software update via Software Updater, it shows me the following and disallow me to continue the ...
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How can I lock an application (and all its new windows) into a specific workspace?
I run a MATLAB script in workspace 1. This generates several plots. In the mean time I switch to workspace 2 and work there. My problem is that the plots are popping up in workspace 2.
Is it possible ...
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What is the equivalent of MATLAB?
I am trying to install software similar to MATLAB. I can't go for MATLAB itself because of its huge download size. Is there an alternative application which is similar to MATLAB?
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Steam 20.04 not working, while i have CUDA
I need Cuda 10.1, for PyTorch, TensorFlow, and MatLab. They don't support Cuda 11. I also need steam to play games.
Is there any way I can use Cuda's parallel processing while able to play games on ...
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Why are some GUI fonts so small in Ubuntu 20.04? How can I fix them?
I installed MATLAB 2020 via a university license and I noticed the fonts are extra small. Additionally, upon startup of Ubuntu a GUI opens up for my password which is also very small. I don't have ...
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How do I install MATLAB R2012a?
I have downloaded MATLAB R2012a for Unix platform and i want to install it on my ubuntu 11.10.
To install i try this command:
/<matlab_installation_file_directory>/install
and it says:
install: ...
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After upgrading ubuntu 14.10 to 15.04 I am no longer able to open Matlab 2013a
I can't open Matlab 2013a after I upgrade Ubuntu 14.10 to 15.04. I have also tried to open from the location folder, and when I try to open it from the console using $
$ cd /usr/local/MATLAB/R2013a/...
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Matlab install - Java permission denied
Matlab version 2012. I know there are many threads about this, suggesting to chmod +x the following files (if you are in installation directory):
sys/java/jre/glnx86/jre/bin/java
sys/java/jre/glnxa64/...
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How do I fix poor performance in Matlab with an AMD R5 M330 GPU?
I've just upgraded to ubuntu 20.04 from 19.10.
The "problem" is while checking that the programs that I use daily are working, I find that Matlab gives me this error
javax.media.opengl....
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version `GLIBCXX_3.4.21' not found
I am using Matlab for ubuntu R2014a and I am not able to run a code because I get the following error
/usr/local/MATLAB/R2014a/bin/glnxa64/../../sys/os/glnxa64/libstdc++.so.6:version 'GLIBCXX_3.4.21' ...
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How to set the Windows default keyboard shortcuts in Ubuntu?
I am working on MATLAB, and it is kind of annoying not being able to use typical shortcuts as Ctrl+S, Ctrl+V or Ctrl+C. I wonder if it is possible to have the default Windows keyboard shortcuts in ...
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Must I enable the root account to install Matlab?
I'm trying to install Matlab R20112a on Ubuntu.
My problem is: I get access to the installation gui running ./install from a terminal, but the installer fails when it tries to write on the folder /...
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Set LD_LIBRARY_PATH correctly
I am using Docker with image of Ubuntu 16.04. I am using this docker to run:
Import C++ classes in python with the help of boost.python
Import matlab's python package in python with the help Matlab ...
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liblapack.so file
I want to run a matlab code in ubuntu 12.04 in which error is coming that liblapack.so shared library file is missing.
How to get this file installed and from where can I get this file.Please help me ...
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My MATLAB launcher doesn't work
I've installed MATLAB R2011a on Ubuntu 11.10 today following Ubuntu's guide.
I've also followed the steps to create the launcher. It appeared, but when I click on it nothing happens. Does anyone knows ...
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How to fix Java problem installing Matlab 2012a (64-bit) in Ubuntu 12.04 (64 bit)?
I am trying to install Matlab 2012a (64-bit) in Ubuntu 12.04LTS (64-bit). I have installed Java 7. My Java version is:
sabyasachi@sabyasachi-ubuntu:~/Downloads/R2012a_UNIX$ java -version
java version ...
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Problem for Matlab Installation
I install the Matlab2009a to my computer successfully and when I try to activate it without using the internet (Activate manually without the Internet) and provide the path to license file. Then an ...
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Matlab .desktop file
(This is not about creating a launcher in the dock or anything like that.)
When I navigate into a folder with some Matlab .m files, and simply do
matlab myscript.m
in the terminal, it launches ...
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/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgfortran (matlab)
I try to use mex some toolbox using matlab. But I got these errors: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgfortran
I used Ubuntu 14.04. I installed gfortran. Could any one help ?
this is the output of : ...
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How can I remove matlab on Ubuntu 14.04
I can't uninstall matlab from my Ubuntu 14.04. When I run sudo apt-get purge matlab then it shows the matlab configuration page but when I cancel the installation process then it shows:
Reading ...
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How do I install MATLAB via the ISO?
I am trying to install MATLAB R2010b to Ubuntu 12.04. I have the ISO file. First I copied it to my PC and then extracted it. Now it seems like I should run the install script. But I could not do that. ...
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How to fix error: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
I am running Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS and when I launch MATLAB R2019b I get the following error:
Gtk-Message: 00:20:10.283: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
[0921/002013.995543:INFO:context.cpp(...
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Matlab can't find /lib/libc.so.6 in 12.04
I'm trying to open Matlab (32 bit version) in 12.04, with
matlab -glnx86
but it returns
/usr/local/bin/matlab: 1: /usr/local/temp/bin/util/oscheck.sh: /lib/libc.so.6: not found
/usr/local/temp/bin/...
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Matlab problem on ubuntu 16.04
I have been facing problem in starting up the Matlab. I am getting the following error:
MATLAB crash file:/home/user/matlab_crash_dump.4765-1:
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Permission problems when installing MATLAB R2013b
I am trying to install MATLAB and I am running into some issues with the installer program with Ubuntu 13.10.
I get to the screen which tells me to select the directory I wish to install in, I then ...
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Out of memory on MATLAB
I'm trying to run a script on matlab_2011a, which calculate same means for a climatology of 50 years. When I started to run the script for all the years it worked fine until the iteration 20th, and ...
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How do I install gcc-4.3?
Is there and easy way to install gcc-4.3 on Oneiric ?
I really need it because matlab depends on i for the creation of mex-files
I tried changing all my resopistories back to Maverick just to install ...
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Run thousands of commands sequentially
I have a task now to run some thousand of commands sequentially. The commands are all in the form $ /home/user/.lcmodel/bin/lcmodel < 2HzSNR100C2.5.txt.
Only the numbers (in bold type) are ...
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MATLAB com.jogamp.opengl.GLException: X11GLXDrawableFactory error
I get the following error when i open matlab2016a on my ubuntu 14.04 with GTX1080:
com.jogamp.opengl.GLException: X11GLXDrawableFactory - Could not initialize shared resources for X11GraphicsDevice[...
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Matlab 2016b Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installation problem (dvd2)
I cannot find the 2nd matlab dvd (iso on my computer) to ultimate the installation process, even though is mounted. How can solve it?
Matlab Screenshot - Eject DVD1 and insert DVD 2 to continue:
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How to install 32-bit Matlab in Ubuntu 64-bit?
While running previous versions of Ubuntu (prior to 13.10) I was able to follow the instructions listed here to install 32-bit Matlab while running 64-bit Ubuntu. Now in 13.10 I am no longer able to ...
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Matlab Installation "finished"?
Hi I am trying to install MATLAB in my Ubuntu 32-bit 13.04 by mounting the ISO. Here are the steps i followed:
sudo mkdir /media/matlab/
sudo mount /home/"username"/Desktop/Matlab_Unix_2012a/...
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Is it possible to run a program installed on an SD card?
I have a small 32 GB hard drive on my Chromebook to which I recently installed Linux. I need to install MatLab 2017a on it, but the entire suite is upwards of 25 GB in size. I only have ~21 GB left on ...
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Text rendering issues in Matlab after upgrade
I'm having various issues with rendering text in Matlab 2016b after doing the upgrade to 16.04. Here are some example screenshots:
I have already checked the classic Ubuntu issue with sub-pixel anti-...
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How to reclaim lost GUI/window
I'm now facing this situation: I'm running several Matlab instances on a computation server (server OS: Xubuntu 14.04, my local machine OS: Ubuntu 14.04). I used NoMachine to connect to the server. ...
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Empty tooltips in MATLAB
I am running MATLAB R2013b. Under Unity, the built-in editor of MATLAB shows empty tooltips, as seen here:
Under XFCE, the tooltips are showing up just fine.
My system: Ubuntu 14.04, Intel i7 4770K.
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How to add a path permanatly in matlab and save it?
How to add a path permanantly in matlab and save it?
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Installing MATLAB 2016a onto ubuntu 16.04?
Hey I recently built a computer and put ubuntu 16.04 onto it. Now I'm going through and adding different software packages. One of them that I got is MATLAB 2016a which I have no idea how to install ...
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How to Run Matlab installed on windows from Linux
I have Windows and Ubuntu installed on my computer. I have Matlab R2012a installed on Windows and I will like to Launch Matlab from Ubuntu. I can navigate to the matlab folder from windows but i do ...