Can't install on Ubuntu 21.04

When attempting to install on Ubuntu 21.04 I am hitting maybe road blocks.

sudo ./install will run the installer but I can't interact with the installer window if I want to choose anything but a default. This means once I reach the point where I enter the login name I can't enter any text.

.install on it's own auto populates the login name but obviously won't work because I need super user to write the files.

I manually created and activation files using the website but the installer will not allow me to change to file key installation. Clicking the menu item does nothing.

Do I have any other options?

Answer 1

[Kiran Felix Robert]

Hi Matthew,

Ubuntu 21.04 is currently not a supported Operating System as of MATLAB R2021a.

Developers are aware of this issue, and may consider addressing this in a future release of MATLAB.

For a list of supported Operating Systems, please see the following documentation page:

https://www.mathworks.com/support/requirements/previous-releases.html

Answer 2

[Wilhelm Kirchgässner]

Same here. On Ubuntu 21.04 I can only type into textfields by pushing the matlab window into active through ALT+TAB, but as soon as I click on the window, keyboard input seems to be blocked. When you let the window untouched though, you can further maneuver through the text fields by repeatedly pressing TAB.

EDIT:

thanks to Matthew Slatosky, switching to xfce (xorg windowing system) has helped me completing the install, too

[Matthew Slatosky]

I was able to get it installed by switching xfce to do the install and switching back when it was done.