As a student of VIT-Bhopal you get access to an Academic License of MATLAB. Here are the steps to set it up and running on Ubuntu -
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Head over to this page.
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Download the installer using the VIT-issued email id.
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Extract the zip folder to any directory ( let’s call it MATLAB ).
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In the MATLAB directory, run ./install.
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Log in using the email and password you used to sign up on the MATLAB website.
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Change the installation directory from usr/local/MATLAB2018b to home/x where x is any folder in your home directory, since it doesn’t let you install in the /usr directory. **
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Select the required components.
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After installation is finished and it has verified the license, you will have to run MATLAB from the terminal.
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Go to /home/x/bin and type ./matlab. (x is the folder you installed matlab in)
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Congrats! You have matlab up and running.
**- This step can also be solved using sudo ./install instead of just ./install but it leads to more errors which I couldn’t solve yet, do comment if you find a work around using sudo ./install.