For MATLAB R2021a or later:
This error typically occurs as the result of a CEF issue from missing libraries.
MathWorks documents all of the required libraries for MATLAB on different Linux distributions. For example, MATLAB R2023b requires the following libraries on RHEL 8 based Linux distributions and they can be installed with one long command:
yum install alsa-lib.x86_64 cairo.x86_64 cairo-gobject.x86_64 cups-libs.x86_64 gdk-pixbuf2.x86_64 glib2.x86_64 glibc.x86_64 glibc-langpack-en.x86_64 glibc-locale-source.x86_64 gtk3.x86_64 libICE.x86_64 libXcomposite.x86_64 libXcursor.x86_64 libXdamage.x86_64 libXfixes.x86_64 libXft.x86_64 libXinerama.x86_64 libXrandr.x86_64 libXt.x86_64 libXtst.x86_64 libXxf86vm.x86_64 libcap.x86_64 libdrm.x86_64 libglvnd-glx.x86_64 libsndfile.x86_64 libtool-ltdl.x86_64 libuuid.x86_64 libwayland-client.x86_64 make.x86_64 mesa-libgbm.x86_64 net-tools.x86_64 nspr.x86_64 nss.x86_64 nss-util.x86_64 pam.x86_64 pango.x86_64 procps-ng.x86_64 sudo.x86_64 unzip.x86_64 which.x86_64 zlib.x86_64
Try installing all of the libraries which MATLAB requires on your Linux distribution and then retry running the installer.
The above command can be inferred from the "base-dependencies.txt" file from this page:
matlab-deps R2023b ubi8: base-dependencies.txt
For more information, see:
What dependencies are needed to install MATLAB on "minimal" or "core" Linux installations?
If your error persists, you can directly run the MATLABWindow script from within the MathWorks Product Installer for a potentially more detailed error message on the missing libraries. You can run MATLABWindow directly by following the below instructions:
1) Start a terminal
2) Extract the MathWorks Product Installer (ex. matlab_R2021b_glnxa64.zip) to a new directory
3) cd to the extracted installer directory (i.e. the directory from which they would run ./install)
4) Run the following command
./bin/glnxa64/MATLABWindow
An example output from this would be:
./bin/glnxa64/MATLABWindow: error while loading shared libraries: libatk-bridge-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
In the above example, the issue was resolved by installing the at-spi2-atk library package.
Another example output is:
./bin/glnxa64/MATLABWindow: error while loading shared libraries: libasound.so.2: cannot open shared object files: No such file or directory.
In this example, the issue was resolved by installing the alsa-lib and alsa-lib-devel library packages.
For MATLAB R2020b or earlier:
This error message is typically caused by a library dependency error.
To resolve this issue, please remove the following libraries from the MathWorks Installation files, specifically the /bin/glnxa64 directory:
libcrypto.so.1.1
libssl.so.1.1
