Reposting the solution provided by the OP in the question
Alright! After doing a little bit of digging, I figured out how to do it! Here's the step by step method to (hopefully) solve the issue for anyone having the same problems:
If you have the .tar.gz file for MATLAB, be sure to right click it and extract it to folder (I did this in ~/Downloads).
Open terminal and type the following:
cd ~/Downloads/(matlabfolder)
sudo chmod +x ./install
sudo ./install
You will get an error that says:
eval:1:/tmp/mathworks_6114/sys/java/jre/glnxa86/jre/bin/java: Permission denied
Then, navigate to that directory and do the following:
cd ~/Downloads/(matlabfolder)/sys/java/jre/glnxa86/jre/bin
sudo chmod +x ./java
Then, go back to the install directory that you went to initially:
cd ~/Downloads/(matlabfolder)
sudo ./install
That should launch the MATLAB installer! If you find my instructions unclear, this is where I got my info!
For those who are wondering, I think that the chmod +x function basically makes the file you specify to be executable.
Hope this helped!
Best Answer
You are trying to install
matlab-support, which needs matlab to be installed first. Follow the instructions given here to install matlab first:In the instructions given on that page, when you try to install the "ia32-libs" package, you will be prompted to choose an application. For this click on "browse" and then go to /usr/bin/software-center.