Ubuntu 24.10 Installation failed

Hi,

I am unable to install Matlab R2023b on a fresh Ubuntu 24.10 OS. Per the manual, this should do it.

xhost +SI:localuser:root
<installer_directory>/matlab_R2023b_glnxa64$ sudo -H ./install

But here's what I get when doing so:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
what():  Failed to launch web window with error: Unable to launch the MATLABWindow application. The exit code was: 1
Aborted

Wandering on the popular search engines, I found the following links:

Why does MATLAB fail to install with a "'std::runtime_error' what(): Unable to launch the MATLABWindow applicati... - MATLAB Answers - MATLAB Central (mathworks.com)

What dependencies are needed to install MATLAB on "minimal" or "core" Linux installations? - MATLAB Answers - MATLAB Central (mathworks.com)

Problème d'installation et de fonctionnement de Matlab sous ubuntu 24.10 : exit code 1 - MATLAB Answers - MATLAB Central (mathworks.com)

But nothing suggested resulted in a successful installation.

I also tried the following:

cd <installer_directory>/bin/glnxa64/
sudo mv libstdc++.so.6 libstdc++.so.6.0.old
sudo mv libstdc++.so.6.0.28 libstdc++.so.6.0.28.old
sudo apt-get install mesa-utils
sudo apt-get install lib64stdc++6:i386 

and then running :

./bin/glnxa64/MATLABWindow

still ended up in:

./bin/glnxa64/MATLABWindow: /home/<user>/Downloads/matlab_R2023b_glnxa64/bin/glnxa64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.29' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgallium-24.2.3-1ubuntu1.so)
./bin/glnxa64/MATLABWindow: /home/<user>/Downloads/matlab_R2023b_glnxa64/bin/glnxa64/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.13' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLLVM.so.19.1)
./bin/glnxa64/MATLABWindow: /home/<user>/Downloads/matlab_R2023b_glnxa64/bin/glnxa64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.30' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLLVM.so.19.1)
./bin/glnxa64/MATLABWindow: /home/<user>/Downloads/matlab_R2023b_glnxa64/bin/glnxa64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.29' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libLLVM.so.19.1)
./bin/glnxa64/MATLABWindow: /home/<user>/Downloads/matlab_R2023b_glnxa64/bin/glnxa64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.30' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicuuc.so.74)

So, I'm not quite sure what else I need to do... I must say I'm a newbie at Ubuntu (and linux in general, though I have played a bit with raspberry pis).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Answer 1

[Divyanshu]

Hello @Sébastien Doré,

Please refer the following points:

• A possible reason for 'version `GLIBCXX_3.4.29' not found' error can be that the libstdc++ library shipped with Ubuntu 24.10 may be older and may not contain the required GLIBCXX version that MATLAB requires. You can refer this MATLAB answer thread to resolve this error.
• If it doesn't resolve the issue then ensure that you have permission to read and execute in the folder you are running ./install from, because the installation program needs to stat files in that folder structure; /home/[user]/MatlabR2023b_Linux_Install/bin/glnxa64/cef_locales/ to be specific, among others.

    $ chmod 755 -R /home/[user]/MatlabR2023b_Linux_Install/
    $ sudo ~/MatlabR2023b_Linux_Install/install

• Even after trying the above steps if the issue is not resolved then you can try to perform a clean installation of MATLAB.

Hope it helps!

Answer 2

[Barbara]

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