[Howto] make Simulink 6 run (Matlab Version 7.0.0.19901 (R14))

[phen]

Hello all,

I didn't find help in these forums, but on a french site. Now I am very proud that I really did understand the french howto.

Original Thread in french

Since I allready asked in another thread, I want to give you a translation in case anybody else has the same problem.

Problem: when I try to start simulink, matlab crashes with an error that libXft.so.1 is missing. The error is in the first lines of text matlab writes down when it crashes. I didnt record the error message, it is something like:

Can't load '/usr/local/My_install/matlab/bin/glnx86/libmwsimulink.so': /usr/lib/libXft.so.1: no such file

the following steps assume that matlab is installed in
/usr/local/matlab7


To solve this, follow this:

sudo apt-get install libXft2

this should install you the libXft.so.2 files.

now link the older libXft.so.1 to the newer files

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libXft.so.2.1.2 /usr/lib/libXft.so.1

Now a different error should appear when trying to start simulink:

??? Can't load '/usr/local/My_install/matlab/bin/glnx86/libmwsimulink.so': /usr/local/My_install/matlab/bin/glnx86/libqt-mt.so.3: undefined symbol: XftFreeTypeOpen

backup your old qt-mt lib

sudo mv /usr/local/matlab7/bin/glnx86/libqt-mt.so.3 /usr/local/matlab7/bin/glnx86/libqt-mt.so.3.old

now again another error appears when trying to start simulink.

fix it with

sudo mv /usr/local/matlab7/sys/os/glnx86/libgcc_s.so.1 /usr/local/matlab7/sys/os/glnx86/libgcc_s.so.1.old

now it works.

hope I could help!

bye

[elleP]

Thank you sir/lady, you are my hero for today.

[ravikm]

thanks a lot. it works on my debian as well.

ravi.

[dai_vernon]

I'm having a really weird problem with simulink on Matlab r2008a (7.6) Everytbing takes about 30 seconds to happen, and when I have objects in my field, I can't double click on them to set their properties. Has anyone else seen anything like this before?

[jeschmitz]

Thanks! It Works.

[vevo]

On a 64bit ubuntu you need to:

sudo mv /usr/local/matlab7/bin/glnxa64/libqt-mt.so.3 /usr/local/matlab7/bin/glnxa64/libqt-mt.so.3.old

[overdrank]

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