When starting a MATLAB Production Server instance, why do I receive the message in my log file "error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file"

When trying to start MATLAB Production Server instance using "mps-start" I get the following error message:

'Server process exited with return code: 1'

Checking my log file, I see the following entry:

'[err] [worker:1] /usr/local/MATLAB/MATLAB_Runtime/v92/bin/glnxa64/mps_worker_app: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory'

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

So far, this issue has been found in Ubuntu and Debian. This is most likely due to missing or outdated "Open Graphic Library" files. 

To resolve the issue, you will have to download the "libGL" package with the following command:

>> sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-glx

If you are using the "yum" package manager with Linux rather than "apt-get", You should instead run either:

sudo yum install mesa-libGL

or 

sudo yum install libglvnd-glx libXt

Afterwards, try restarting the instance and the error message should no longer appear.