Matlab 32-bit on ubuntu 64-bit
I was bugged to install Matlab 32-bit on my system that had a newly installed Ubuntu 64bit Linux. Matlab couldn't find the right JRE for the 64-bit architecture and ran only in command-prompt. After lot of wandering on the net, i found a simple solution the the problem. I had to manually set the JAVA path for matlab. For this i used the command : export MATLAB_JAVA='/usr/lib/jvm/ia32-java-6-sun-1.6.0.06/jre' After this i just ran the command to start matlab : matlab -glnx86 Remmber to put it in .bashrc to get it done every time you start matlab from bash.