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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).

@gunjah, you can just copy/paste it here or create your own 2018a specific aur package.

Please update to 2018a

I updated the PKGBUILD for 2018a. How can I upload it?

Hello, I write a PKGBUILD based on this one.

Changes:

• default installation folder: /opt/matlab
• license.dat is installed in /opt/matlab/licenses. I'm sure how matlab activing, but just copying license.dat to /etc/matlab/licenses/, and create a soft link from /opt/matlab/licenses to /etc/matlab/licenses/ not work for me.
• matlab.tar is created by just copying all file in matlab iso file to folder matlab, and tar cvf matlab.tar matlab

However, I just test with _networkinstall=true, and everything works fine. I'm not sure if other activating method would work.

@daniel_shub Hi, it seems that the package don't install the license.dat when _networkinstall=true. It just create a soft link to /etc/matlab/licenses/, but /etc/matlab/licenses/ is not created, license.dat is not installed either. So after installation, one still need to activate matlab.

As for the ISO file, only license Administrator could download the ISO file. I just download it from school website (our school buy licenses). Or one could always down the ISO in some other way. As long as one has the proper license, I think it's OK to do that.

@hottea the tarball is a pain. When I first packaged things, TMW was making getting the ISO file difficult, but you could download zip files of everything you needed from your TMW account. Then they changed the installer so that you could only download the files from the installer. Getting the files into a place that makepkg can find them is a moving target. I no longer have access to new versions of MATLAB and am no longer sure what the easiest or best thing to do it. If I had access to ISO files I would probably just use the ISO and add a checksum.

I used /opt/tmw/matlab based on Adobe Reader (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/acroread/) which puts the package in /opt/Adobe/Reader9 and Google Earth (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/google-earth/) which puts the package in /opt/google/earth/free/. I think the FHS requirement for subdirectories to be the LANANA names only came about recently, maybe it is time to just use /opt/matlab.

It seems that the matlab.tar contains all file in the matlab iso, I think it would be better if it one could create a matlab folder, and copy files in matlab iso to the matlab folder, and then create a tarball by tar cvf matlab.tar matlab/. Also why the installation dir is /opt/tmw/matlab? It's a little weird.

@t4mmi In package function, the MATLAB installer output is redirected to /dev/null, you might wanna change it and see the log. In fact, I think it MathWorks's mistake that matlab installer and some other scripts are without x permission. Just chmod +x -R matlab before create matlab.tar might fix it.

@t4mmi You need to place matlab.tar and matlab.fik (a file with your installation key inside) in the directory where you cloned this package. If you used pacaur it is ~/.cache/pacaur/matlab. Further instructions are in the head of the PKGBUILD.

was unable to build ...

[user@workstation matlab]$ makepkg -si

==> Making package: matlab 9.3.0.713579-2 (Mon Dec 4 17:31:29 CET 2017)

==> Checking runtime dependencies...

==> Checking buildtime dependencies...

==> Retrieving sources...

==> ERROR: Unknown download protocol: file Aborting...