Re: installing MATLAB
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Prof. Le Baron O. Ferguson wrote:
> Trying to do an install from the CDROM for v. 5.3 of MATLAB I can
> not
> get started. I get an error message:
> can't load library 'libXt.so.6'
> I find this library at /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6. I put a link to it
> in /usr/X11R6 but that did not help.
>
> I would appreciate any suggestions as to what to try next.
>
>From where I'm sitting, it sounds like a LD_LIBRARY_PATH issue. I know that
the Matlab installer uses Tcl/Tk, so as a sanity check you'll want to see if
those are working. What you might want to do is do something like:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/usr/X11R6/lib
This _should_ resolve the issue (if it's a simple matter of not being able
to find the library).
Another thing you sould be aware of is that the MATLAB support people are
fairly Linux-aware. I don't know if any kind of service contract is
necessary, but you might try giving them a call if the problem persists.
Good luck.
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Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic
University of Washington http://rcs.ee.washington.edu/ssli
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