
The matlabAUR package from the AUR defaults to building a package for the most recent 64-bit release of MATLAB, although the PKGBUILD supports MATLAB releases from R2010b and even the installation of multiple releases simultaneous. Distributing the package is a clear violation of the EULA. The package should be built on the system on which it is going to be installed and the package should be deleted from the installation location and the Pacman cache following installation. The matlabAUR package from the AUR is designed to allow MATLAB to be integrated into and managed by Arch. The EULA for the proprietary MATLAB software is restrictive. To find it out start MATLAB, run xprop | grep WM_CLASS and select the MATLAB window. In order for icons to appear correctly StartupWMClass needs to be set in the desktop entry. nosplash to prevent the splash screen from showing up.

desktop to run Matlab without a terminal. The MIME type of MATLAB files is text/x-matlab. MATLAB should automatically unpack those jars into /bin/matlab /usr/local/bin To fix this issue, download the and replace the following jars from MATLAB: This issue is still present with glibc 2.26 and MATLAB R2017b. The issue is related to the particular version of jxbrowser-chromium shipped with MATLAB.
MATLAB 2012 FOR LINUX UPGRADE
Since upgrade of glibc from 2.24 to 2.25, MATLAB (at least R2017a) hangs when closing Help Browser.

= MATLAB hangs for several minutes when closing Help Browser = ( → Add information related to R2017b and MATLAB freeze on Help Browser closing)
