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Hi, I'm tackling the problem with the add-ons installation, where the installer can't write to /usr/local/MATLAB/R2022b. I think we should avoid manual chmods or chowns, as it would be easy to mess up with the permissions, so I created a matlab group with rwx permissions, which owns the tree starting at /usr/local/MATLAB/R2022b. The PKGBUILD sets up the correct permissions, so after installing MATLAB, you should just add yourself to that group, re-login and then you should be able to install add-ons. So far I'm able to start the installer, download the add-on archive, but when I get to Performing post-installation tasks. This may take a few minutes..., an error occurs, and the installer logs End - Unsuccessful Exception: java.lang.InterruptedException without further information.

If anyone wants to help me resolve this issue, here is the repo: https://github.com/Rubo3/matlab-aur/tree/addons.

I updated the PKGBUILD to MATLAB R2022b. Sorry it took so long. Here are the main changes:

• The dependencies have been updated according to namcap (thanks @sukanka), and are now managed via the matlab-meta meta package, now it's really easy to play around with them, as you don't have to rebuild the entire MATLAB package (thanks @bbaserdem). I still don't know the exact dependencies needed by MATLAB, as I don't use all its toolkits and whatnots. As always, please tell me if you find something.
• The MATLAB installer now outputs its logs in install.log, under the same directory of the PKGBUILD, so that you can check whether something went wrong even if it didn't fail (e.g. when you need a new license or installation key because the major version changed).
• I moved python-matlabengine to its own repo, which is built from upstream and works for the latest MATLAB versions. Currently it supports Python 3.9 and 3.10. If you have other needs, you can find the installation instructions here. Since the source files are still provided in your local MATLAB installation under $_instdir/extern/engines/python, building it and packaging it here was really just a convenience. I would like to know how many users of this PKGBUILD really need to spoof their Python version, so that we can reason about putting back that extra logic in the other PKGBUILD.
• I also removed the Mesa workaround and the optional compilers, are they still needed?

READ THE README FILE IN THE REPO. NO AUR HELPERS SUPPORTED. ONLY ARCHLINUX AS OS IS SUPPORTED. YOU SHOULD BE BUILDING THIS PACKAGE USING MAKEPKG, NOTHING ELSE WILL BE SUPPORTED. Please only post issues here AFTER you followed the README.md. located at the root of this repo: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/README.md?h=matlab Due to a lot of comments; my spam filter is removing AUR notifications which keeps me from responding timely to issues in packaging, please don't post if you don't do some troubleshooting yourself. If your skill level is not up to troubleshooting (or following simple instructions as laid out by the readme), just install matlab locally, without using this package.

• This PKGBUILD is NOT a minimal installation; as it has (hard) dependencies to gcc8 to force MATLAB to use system libraries. While generally not required; this PKGBUILD is trying to make MATLAB work with the system rather than with the mathworks-provided binaries. Currently it also does the python integration so that jupyter can be used with it.
• This will only work with 2020b version; and will not work with earlier (or later) versions.
• This PKGBUILD DOES NOT DOWNLOAD MATLAB FOR YOU. The EULA prevents redistribution of the software. Read the README.md file contained in the PKGBUILD repo. This is essentially a script to integrate an existing matlab installer with your archlinux system; it does NOT come with any software from Mathworks. You most likely cannot build this package using an AUR helper; you NEED to manually provide files; and to get the files you need a valid MATLAB licence. The process of fetching the files is described in detail in the README.md in the repo. (You can use any valid credentials to install the package using this PKGBUILD; including a licence file that does not match the machine; but you will need to reactivate matlab by using activate_matlab.sh with root privileges.)
• Current users; please help me test and trim the dependencies list, and submit your personal fixes for issues if you have them so they can be added to the PKGBUILD. (Cuda related contributions; if needed would be good as I don't have nvidia GPU's to test compatibility.)
• To use jupyter with matlab; you also need jupyter-matlab_kernel(-git).

When the installer comes up on this error:

Using a File Installation Key requires you run the installer from a MATLAB DVD or from a directory which contains files previously downloaded via the installer.

makepkg doesn't stop running, but rather continues and will even install an empty binary that doesn't function. I'm well aware of the proper way to acquire the Matlab files to build the package, but is there a way to get the PKGBUILD script to halt on this error?

@jadesoturi The .zip you download from tmw only contains the files needed to run the installer, not all the files required for installation. You need the complete iso. Alternatively, you can run the installer manually, it will download the proper contents of the archives/ folder to a folder in /tmp/. You can then use those files along with the contents of the .zip you previously downloaded to generate the matlab.tar that this package needs to build.

I'm having issues installing this. I got the fik and lic files and the latest zip from Mathworks, but when running makepkg -si it terminates with the following error:

  -> Modifying the installer settings
sed: can't read /home/jadesoturi/temp/matlab/src/matlab/installer_input.txt: No such file or directory
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare().
    Aborting...

(Oct 31, 2018 16:42:00) Starting local product/component search in download directory
(Oct 31, 2018 16:42:00) Searching for archives...
(Oct 31, 2018 16:42:00) Reading /home/jadesoturi/temp/matlab/src/matlab/archives
(Oct 31, 2018 16:42:00) 2 files found in /home/jadesoturi/temp/matlab/src/matlab/archives
(Oct 31, 2018 16:42:00) Reading /home/jadesoturi/temp/matlab/src/matlab
(Oct 31, 2018 16:42:00) 20 files found in /home/jadesoturi/temp/matlab/src/matlab
(Oct 31, 2018 16:42:00) Archive search complete.  22 total files found.
(Oct 31, 2018 16:42:01) Completed local product/component search
(Oct 31, 2018 16:42:01) Error: Unable to locate required installation files.

Using a File Installation Key requires you run the installer from a MATLAB DVD or from a directory which contains files previously downloaded via the installer.
To obtain the missing files,  click Back on the previous screen and select Log in with a MathWorks Account or contact your MATLAB license administrator.
(Oct 31, 2018 16:42:01) Exiting with status -2
(Oct 31, 2018 16:42:01) End - Unsuccessful.
Finished

@hottea, thats great info. I am not, I am just creating a local tarball of matlab, so I can distribute it easily on my 4 archlinux installations. But knowing the file structure for the tarball is a godsent.

On further inspection, matlab now (since 2018b at least from what I have noticed) installs the products to /tmp/tmw<random> while using the network installer. I don't think this was the previous behavior (and it is bad practice to put 8GB on a tmpfs) do notice that the file is deleted upon installation/exiting; so pause once the installer reports 'installing' and cp the directory out of tmp.</random>

@bbaserdem Hey, if you're license administrator, you could download the product via installer with download only option, see here for detail. A typical matlab tarball look like this:

matlab
├── activate.ini
├── archives/
├── bin/
├── etc/
├── help/
├── install
├── installer_input.txt
├── install_guide.pdf
├── java/
├── license_agreement.txt
├── licenses/
├── patents.txt
├── readme.txt
├── sys/
├── trademarks.txt
├── ui/
└── version.txt

Matlab products locate in archives directory.

I was wondering if anyone had any issues installing R2018b. I'm trying to create the tar file using the installer, but it looks like the toolboxes are installed somewhere i dont know. I used to install to a directory called faux, and cancelled the moment toolboxes finished, then merged the two directories. (Not working this time around, Im getting missisng file warnings on the installer)

I tried looking for guides regarding creating the tar but nada. Can anyone help out? (And maybe we can include instructions in PKGBUILD how to properly create tar from the installer?)

:: Parsing SRCINFO (1/2): ncurses5-compat-libs :: Parsing SRCINFO (2/2): matlab ==> Creazione del pacchetto: ncurses5-compat-libs 6.1-1 (sab 29 set 2018 20:53:51 CEST) ==> Download dei sorgenti in corso... -> È stato trovato ncurses-6.1.tar.gz -> È stato trovato ncurses-6.1.tar.gz.sig ==> Validazione di source file con md5sums... ncurses-6.1.tar.gz ... Verificato ncurses-6.1.tar.gz.sig ... Ignorato ==> Validazione delle firme dei sorgenti con gpg in corso... ncurses-6.1.tar.gz ... Verificato ==> Pulizia in corso... ==> Creazione del pacchetto: matlab 9.4.0.813654-1 (sab 29 set 2018 20:53:51 CEST) ==> Download dei sorgenti in corso... -> Download di matlab.tar in corso... curl: (3) Invalid file://hostname/, expected localhost or 127.0.0.1 or none ==> ERRORE: Impossibile scaricare file://matlab.tar L'operazione sta per essere interrotta... Error downloading sources: matlab

@petronny If gcc6 is not listed as dep, then we should not modify mex opts in ${MATLAB}/bin/glnxa64/mexopts/LANG_glnxa64.xml. And gcc6 in AUR is gcc 6.4, not gcc 6.3 which is officially supported by MathWorks.

@petronny matlab.lic is available in your account center in MathWorks website. If you don't have one, then you could/should not install matlab.