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Install Matlab Ubuntu Free

I will cover this topic in two section one if you have an iso image of matlab and two if you don't have. Before that let me give you a brief overview of matlab:

MATLAB® is a high-level language and interactive environment that enables you to perform computationally intensive tasks faster than with traditional programming languages such as C, C++, and Fortran.

You can use MATLAB in a wide range of applications, including signal and image processing, communications, control design, test and measurement, financial modeling and analysis, and computational biology. Add-on toolboxes (collections of special-purpose MATLAB functions, available separately) extend the MATLAB environment to solve particular classes of problems in these application areas.

MATLAB provides a number of features for documenting and sharing your work. You can integrate your MATLAB code with other languages and applications, and distribute your MATLAB algorithms and applications.

Source:Ubuntu Community Help

So here are the solutions:

1. Having .iso file

If you are having .iso image file of matlab then follow the instructions below:

Make directory under /media/'username'/iso with sudo. here is example for username da.

sudo mkdir /home/da/iso

Then mount the Matlab installation .iso to that directory.

mount MatlabR201x.iso /home/da/iso -o loop

then execute the installer with sudo permissions.

sudo /medida/da/bin/install

That's it.

2. Not having .iso file

If you are not having .iso file then i am regret to say that you will not able to install MATLAB officially as it is a paid service and you have to pay for it. Still here are some best alternatives for MATLAB which you can consider using:

the following can be found in the software center

1. Octave: Is a near clone of MATLAB using the same syntax for .m files. It does not include a Simulink Clone however.

2. Scilab: Is a similar matrix based mathematical to MATLAB but it does have its own syntax so is not directly compatible. It does however include scicos which though not identical is similar to Simulink: a block diagram modeller / simulator.

3. Spyder: is a powerful interactive development environment for the Python language with advanced editing, interactive testing, debugging and introspection features. This can be used for mathematical modeling.

4. Maxima: Is a computer algebra system similar to Mathcad, Maple and Mathematica.

Other free package which are not in the repositories

sage: is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It combines the power of many existing open-source packages into a common Python-based interface. Mission: Creating a viable free open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab.

You can install it by:

apt-add-repository -y ppa:aims/sagemath
apt-get update
apt-get install sagemath-upstream-binary

Thanks............