I just spent a couple hours troubleshooting Matlab installers. So far I’ve run into unzipping problems with Ark, Wayland incompatibility, and in insurmountable seg-fault which might have something to do with incompatible libraries.
I’ve done this sort of thing for long enough to know that it’s silly to spend more than a few hours when I’ve got a Windows VM sitting right here, but if someone knows what I’m talking about and recently overcame these issues, I’d really appreciate reading about it.
Tried Matlab package manager (MPM)? I remember using that one per arch wiki back when I was still using Matlab. AFAIK MPM is only way to install Matlab when using wayland.
Yes. MPM successfully installed Matlab, but Matlab would crash at some point in the startup process.
Ultimately, I remembered that I have a partition on my laptop with Ubuntu on it, which is officially supported by Matlab. That worked. I’m disappointed that I have to switch systems to use Matlab, though. This is the first time Arch (Endeavour) has failed me like this.
Some comments suggest using containerization when running matlabs due to its dependencies. Maybe distrobox, podman or something like that would work with current versions? On reddit people are reporting success with podman and matlab 2025a.
I didn’t get it working either, sadly. No matter which installation method I tried, I got the error message: “Segmentation fault. Core dumped” (I couldn’t even run the MathWorksProductAuthorizer.sh to validate my license).
Sticking to a VM with Ubuntu for now; works like a charm on there ^^’