How can I remove matlab on Ubuntu 14.04
I can't uninstall matlab from my Ubuntu 14.04. When I run sudo apt-get purge matlab
then it shows the matlab configuration page but when I cancel the installation process then it shows:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'matlab' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 148 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up matlab-support (0.0.19) ...
No default Matlab path found. Exiting.
dpkg: error processing package matlab-support (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
matlab-support
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
How can I uninstall matlab?
You simply need to delete the folder that has your matlab installation. That's it.
However if you have a license manager you first need to shut it down and remove its files. I didn't need to do this but here you go:
To shut it down: there should be a file called
lmdown
in your matlab folder in theetc
folder. Run it.To remove its files: run
sudo rm /var/tmp/lm_TMW*
Also you might want to remove symlinks to matlab binaries. Run:
rm /usr/local/bin/matlab /usr/local/bin/mcc /usr/local/bin/mex /usr/local/bin/mbuild
...Also don't forget to remove matlab-support
. Run:
sudo apt-get purge matlab-support
Source
Run sudo apt-get purge matlab-support
in a Terminal to remove it.