Wine & Matlab blues

Yuandan Zhang yuandan.zhang at gmail.com
Thu Nov 9 04:09:20 UTC 2006


On 09/11/06, Iwan Setyawan <iwan.s.milis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> I hope somebody in this list can help me getting Wine & Matlab to work. I
> installed Matlab
> on my Windows partition, but I work mostly (and preferably) in Linux.
>
> My first attempt to use Wine to run Matlab ( 6.5R13) was using a very old
> version of Wine,
> (installed wine-0.9.2-1fc4winehq.i686.rpm) on an FC5 box. As expected,
> Matlab sort of
> worked when invoked using the -nojvm parameter.
>
> I have since tried various (newer) versions of wine (up to 0.9.21,
> downloaded the rpm from
> the fedora's extras repo) and Matlab simply ceased to work. Everytime I
> tried to run Matlab
> it simply freezes (although the Java desktop did show up). Actually it
> didn't really freeze. It just
> seems take ages to do the initialization stuff. This also happens if I
> invoke the -nojvm parameter.
>
> Then I tried to install a newer version of Matlab (version 7). I followed
> the procedure described
> in appdb.winehq.com (apparently some people was able to get Matlab to
> work) to the letter.
> When I tried to run Matlab, everything seems to work with one exception: I
> cannot open figures!
> (Actually, Matlab seems to be able to open it, but simply refuses to
> display it). This happens both
> with and without the -nojvm parameter.
>
> I am currently running FC6 with Wine 0.9.24 and things are simply getting
> worse. First of all, I
> cannot run wine properly (it cannot properly create the .wine directory).
> The only way to make
> wine to run at all was to sudo it. When Wine does run, I still cannot run
> Matlab properly (similar
> problems as above, except now I simply cannot run Matlab 6.5 without
> invoking -nojvm).
>
> I am completely lost here. Can anybody help me (or point me to a place
> where I can find
> an answer)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Iwan
>
> PS. No, I cannot use Matlab for Linux (can't afford it). No, I cannot use
> Octave (compatibility
> problems, I don't want to check and possibly rewrite the codes I already
> have)
>
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did you look at scilab

http://www.scilab.org
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