On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 06:34:39AM +0000, Foxtrot Mike via arch-general wrote: > Hi all, > > I have MATLAB 8.6 (2015b). If I install MATLAB in the default directory > (/usr/local/MATLAB), everything works fine. However, I want to install > MATLAB on a different partition (/mnt/Software). I installed MATLAB on > Software parition successfully, but when I try to run matlab, I get this > error: > > ===================================================================== > >pwd > /mnt/Software/LinuxMatlab/installed/bin > >./matlab > expr: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory > /bin/uname: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory > > Sorry! We could not determine the machine architecture for your > host. Please contact: > > MathWorks Technical Support > > for further assistance. > > trap: usage: trap [-lp] [[arg] signal_spec ...] > ===================================================================== > > I think I need to link some libraries so that MATLAB can access them > from the Software parition. I am not quite sure how to do it and which > libraries do I need to symlink. Any help would be appreciated! Have you read ld.so(8) manpage? Try running the executable by explicitly specifying LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib ./matlab