MATLAB: Do I receive “can’t open library: /usr/local/lib/libXm.2.dylib” when running Matlab 7.0 (R14)

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When running the MATLAB startup script (matlab) from the $MATLAB/bin/mac directory in an xterm window on Mac OS X 10.3, I receive the following error:

 dyld: ./matlab can't open library: /usr/local/lib/libXm.2.dylib  (No  
 such file or directory, errno = 2)

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This error is caused by running the MATLAB startup script (matlab) from the wrong directory ($MATLAB/bin/mac):

Instead, use the script that is located in the following directory:

$MATLAB/bin

where $MATLAB is the name of the directory where you installed MATLAB.

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Kubuntu 8.10 has opengl libraries that are named slightly differently than most Linux opengl drivers. This will cause MATLAB to be unable to find the hardware opengl libraries (even if 'opengl info' states 'software=false').

To work around this issue create new symbolic links by navigating to the directory that contains libGL.so.1 and performing the following at the Kubuntu command line:

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    ln -s libGLU.so.1 libGLU.so

MATLAB will then be able to use hardware accelerated opengl.

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This bug has been fixed for Release 14 (R14). For previous releases, please read below for any possible workarounds:

This issue has been forwarded to our development staff to be addressed in a future release of MATLAB.

The problem occurs if you use LessTif's version of libXm.2.dylib

As a workaround, please be sure that your DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH does not contain a directory with LessTif's libXm.2.dylib on it.

Some customers have gotten the following to work:

In a terminal, type the following (all as one continuous command);

 setenv DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH  
 /Applications/MATLAB6p5/sys/os/mac:/Applications/MATLAB6p5/bin/mac:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib:/sw/lib

Alternatively, you can edit /Applications/MATLAB6p5/bin/matlab. by doing the following:

After the first line of that file that reads as follows:

 "#! /bin/sh":

You can insert the following 2 lines:

 DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/Applications/MATLAB6p5/sys/os/mac:/Applications/MATLAB6p5/bin/mac:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
 export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH

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