Installation of matlab in fedora core 8
I am installing matlab in fedora core 8 and the following error message occurs. Please help
An error status was returned by the program 'xsetup', the X Window System version of 'install'. The following messages were written to standard error: /root/Desktop/Matlab R2010a for Linux and MacOS/update/bin/glnx86/xsetup: error while loading shared libraries: /root/Desktop/Matlab R2010a for Linux and MacOS/update/bin/glnx86/libmwins.so: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied Attempt to fix the problem and try again. If X is not available or 'xsetup' cannot be made to work then try the terminal version of 'install' using the command: install* -t or INSTALL* -t |
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Also...it tells you to run the terminal install, and tells you how...did you try that? |
Hi, welcome to LQ
Please note that Fedora Core 8 is years old and totally unsupported. Don't expect modern Linux application to work or be compatible. FC8 belong to the same league as Windows 98. If your MathLab is from the same 'era' of Fedora, then it might work anyway with some work, but then again, I strongly discourage you from doing so. Fedora is not a long term distribution. The closest relative is CentOS, where everything is supported for a least 7 years. Fedora is only supported for 18 months. As for your problem, is the X server installed and running (it should be 'yes')? Have you tried to execute this script as root or as regular user (it should be 'root')? |
I know that Fedora 8 is old but I am doing a project on ns-2.27 which works well on this platform.
I dont know how to install the x server. Can you guide me? |
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Do you have a GUI up now, on the FC8 machine?? If so, X is running. AGAIN, we will point out that new software will probably not work. The installer may very well be checking for a specific version or higher of software, which you will not/can not have. Install a new version of Fedora, and NS2 will install nicely on it as well, so there's no reason to use something so old at all. |
it is unlikely that a current Matlab will run on the ANCIENT fedora 8
it is also unlikley that fedora 8 will even install on any NEW hardware you might have to use an older computer from 2008 HOWEVER the FREE "octave" ( a matlap port / reverse engineering ) IS in the CURRENT fedora 17 repos but if you also MUST use the even older ns2.2 and NOT the just old 2.34 matlab and Octave (I use Octave a lot ) are " almost " interchangeable but if YOU MUST ( go against recommendation ) then post a question over at the END OF LIFE section at "fedoraforum" http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=75 BE WARNED it is a ROYAL pain in the "BLEEP" ( the thing you sit on) to install software on a VERY VERY DEAD version of fedora and on 8 there is a "special EXTRA pain " the rpm hashes were RE-released do to a server intrusion the hashes on the install dvd are USELESS you have to use the rereleased security hashes |
Mathlab courses
Wife was stuck using my linux computer and it would not access Mathlab for classes until I tried Archbang. The version of Firefox on Archbang would allow her to perform her homework. Just a heads up.
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