Matlab and Ubuntu.

Has anyone installed the Matlab 7.0 (Student Version) on Ubuntu? I haven't figured out how to get it to work. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

I remember having troubles getting 7.0 to work on a 2.6.xx kernel; it's pretty much impossible at least on 64 bit systems, as the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks for which you can google don't work.

I strongly recommend to invest 100 bucks into a 7.4 student version. There you won't have any issues with installation, get better performance, and, from what I understand, you also don't have to keep the media is your optical drive all the time...

 

Well, I think I'll just run it in Windows instead of spending $100. I'll be using Linux for C. Thanks for the info!

 

btw, a free alternative is octave which is compatible to matlab (well, some of the more esoteric functions, especially from toolboxes, are not implemented.)

it's also not bad performance-wise. i only use it to run m-files from the command line, so i don't know if they provide any GUI that comes close to what Matlab has to offer...

i'm not an ubuntu guy, but my guess is it might be in the extra repositories and there may be multiple packages besides the base "octave" package...

 

Octave 2.9 is in Ubuntu's universe repositories (just do `apt-cache showpkg octave` at a command prompt to see what repositories it is in, etc.)

 

I hope Octave can run all Matlab add-up packages.

 

Doubtful. You may need to install Windows to run Matlab, or run it in vmware or something. You can also get a Linux-native version of Matlab, or possibly even just use Wine to run it.

 

Octave is great, I carry it on a usb thumb drive (windows port) free and will do the basics (including graphs).

 

I use Matlab 7.0 and I never had problems to run it either on 32bit or 64bit machines. I currently use it on Suse and Ubuntu machines. However it's the standard edition, I guess it won't change much.

 

comparing octave to Matlab is rather difficult...