'Permission denied error while installing MATLAB 2017 on ubuntu16.4
I tried to install MATLAB 2017a the first I used ./install and got permission denied error the next made super user and that error repeated again. This is whole of my installation process:
reza@reza:~$ cd /home/reza/Desktop/matlab-linux/1
reza@reza:~/Desktop/matlab-linux/1$ ./install
./install: 1: exec: /home/reza/Desktop/matlab-linux/1/bin/glnxa64/install_unix: Permission denied
reza@reza:~/Desktop/matlab-linux/1$ sudo bash
[sudo] password for reza:
root@reza:~/Desktop/matlab-linux/1# ./install
./install: 1: exec: /home/reza/Desktop/matlab-linux/1/bin/glnxa64/install_unix: Permission denied
Please help?
Solution 1:[1]
The Matlab installation copies itself to /tmp and tries to run there.
Most likely /tmp is mounted in such a way that you are not allowed to run executables in it.
(Check with mount | grep noexec)
You probably have a line similar to tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=1777 0 0 in your /etc/fstab.
Remove the nosuid,nodev,noexec part, remount /tmp (or better: reboot) and try again.
(After the installation you can restore the line in /etc/fstab)
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| Solution | Source |
|---|---|
| Solution 1 | Garo |