We don t want to always open the terminal and run the above command each time we want to open matlab.
How to open matlab in linux terminal.
Sadly matlab doesn t create one for us automatically after the installation like it should have done so we ll need to create the launcher manually.
Linux is case sensitive type all commands exactly as written.
The echo option of system is to send the results to the matlab command window as well not to open a new terminal.
Host name of the x window display matlab uses for output.
I just downloaded matlab 2017b while there is the 2017a version on my computer version i do not own the licence.
From the terminal type tar xvf r2019a tar then press enter.
The value of xdisplay passed with the display argument to the script is used.
Thanks for your help.
Instead we simply want to run matlab using an icon in the applications menu.
The new terminal on windows is only because it is a graphical command that is being named.
Press ctrl alt t to open a terminal window type cd downloads then enter.
Download the linux installer file and the standalone edition license file to your downloads directory.
Matlab ignores display if the nodisplay argument is passed.
Final load library path.
Ideally one could write a command that opens matlab makes the current folder of matlab the same path as the current terminal directory then opens a specified file in editor.
By default the commande matlab on the terminal try to open the 2017a version and failed even after i did what you said.
The final value is normally a colon separated list of four sublists each of which could be empty.
Steven lord on 18 jul 2019.