I’m having a problem with Matlab R2010b UNIX installation. In Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04, this version of Matlab works fine. But now, with openSUSE 11.4 64 bits with KDE, the installation just don’t work. I’ve typed this on terminal:
$ sudo ~/matlab/install
and I’ve got this:
Preparing installation files ...
Installing ...
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Error: Installation cannot proceed. You may either:
1. Set an X11 display, and restart the install process
2. Use the silent install feature by specifying the -mode silent option
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Finished
Well, Java is installed and aparently that’s not the problem. I’ve already searched on google and I haven’t found something that works. Can someone help me? Someone already went through this?
>
> Hi,
>
> I’m having a problem with Matlab R2010b UNIX installation. In Ubuntu
> 10.10 and 11.04, this version of Matlab works fine. But now, with
> openSUSE 11.4 64 bits with KDE, the installation just don’t work. I’ve
> typed this on terminal:
>
>
> Code:
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> $ sudo ~/matlab/install
> --------------------
>
Do not use sudo for this, but use kdesu and provide the full path to kdesu
(otherwise it will expand ~ in the wrong way as you are root then)
kdesu /home/whoyouare/matlab/install
of course replace “whoyouare” with your user name.
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PC: oS 11.3 64 bit | Intel Core2 Quad Q8300@2.50GHz | KDE 4.6.3 | GeForce
9600 GT | 4GB Ram
Eee PC 1201n: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Atom 330@1.60GHz | KDE 4.6.0 | nVidia
ION | 3GB Ram
gpereira007 wrote:
> Thank you very much! This really worked, but what is the reason I need
> to use kdesu instead of sudo?
>
> Vielen Dank!
>
The simple reason is that sudo is a command which can be configured in a
variety of ways via its configuration file /etc/sudoers (or the visudo
tool).
Because sudo is the main tool in ubuntu for everything you need to do as
root they configured it by default that you can run gui applications with
it. This is not the default configuration in openSUSE (the default
configuration for sudo in openSUSE is more or less that there is no special
configuration for it at all).
The more traditional way is chosen to use su instead of sudo and
kdesu/gnomesu for gui applications which need root permissions.
If you simply compare how sudo is by default configured in ubuntu and make
the same configuration for it in openSUSE it should behave exactly the same
(I never tested this though, because I like the traditional way with a full
root account).
To see how it is configured in openSUSE run “visudo” as root or “cat
/etc/sudoers” and do the same on an ubuntu to see the difference.
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PC: oS 11.3 64 bit | Intel Core2 Quad Q8300@2.50GHz | KDE 4.6.3 | GeForce
9600 GT | 4GB Ram
Eee PC 1201n: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Atom 330@1.60GHz | KDE 4.6.0 | nVidia
ION | 3GB Ram
I had the same problem with Matlab R2011a.
I used sudo to install Matlab properly in Ubuntu and Linux Mint.
But in OpenSUSE 11.4 gnome, I used gnomesu command. It really worked
Thanks martin_helm.
I’m from Vietnam. Sorry for my poor English.