Installing MATLAB 2015b on Debian Jessie

January 12, 2016

• linux
• matlab
• debian
• applications
• matlab2015b

Ran into a couple of problems here:

Default Debian behaviour is to mount cd’s with noexec option. Thus you get permission denied even as root when you try to run the install script. Solution; remount cd:

sudo mount -o remount,exec,ro /media/cdrom0

or whatever path the cd is mounted at. You need the ro otherwise it complains.

Other more general problem: sudo ./install just results in Installing... Finished and a silent fail. In the old days using gksudo fixed this but apparently it’s deprecated now. It does work when running as normal user, so tried:

sudo -E ./install

this worked correctly.