MATLAB: Trouble installing on Linux VM

linux

I've been having lots of issues trying to install 2020a on a Ubuntu VM. At first it was display problems but I think that's takedn care of because x forwarding is now working with other apps. When i try to run the install executable now I get:
"terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
what(): Unable to launch the MATLABWindow application
Aborted (core dumped)"
One strange this is tht when I unziped the installer download is didn't create a new directory but dumped everything into the current directory. Don't know if that's an issue. Any guidance is appreciated.

Best Answer

Someone at my institutions computing center figured out that the install_unix_legacy binary works. It's in /bin/glnxa64 of the extracted files.