MATLAB: Do I receive an extraction error when running mglinstaller.exe

Question

I receive the error:

 checkdir:  cannot create extraction directory: C:"
 Error: could not run command 'mglarchive.exe -qq -u -d
 "C:\"'.
 Finished unsuccessfully. Press Enter key to exit the installer.

Answer 1

The mglinstaller.exe utility is a zip archive. When you give C:\, it tries to create C:\ and then unzip the file within that. Since, C:\ is a drive letter, it cannot create a directory by this name.

To work around this issue, provide a directory name within a particular drive to install MATLAB run-time libraries correctly, something like C:\MGL.