how to install matlab7 in ubuntu 8.04

please help for solving this problem

installation done by following steps
$su

password

$ mkdir /usr/local/matlab7

$ /home/username/matlab7/cd_1/install*

and copied license file to $MATLAB/etc

 for starting matlab

username@hostname:~$ cd /usr/local/matlab7/bin/matlab

bash: cd: /usr/local/matlab7/bin/matlab: Not a directory

Hi,

Here is an old guide for installing MatLab 7: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=74708&highlight=matlab

If the installation procedure above for Matlab still does not work, maybe you should try out maxima or octave, which are open source and available in the Ubuntu repositories:

$aptitude search maxima
p maxima - A computer algebra system -- base system
p maxima-doc - A computer algebra system -- documentation
p maxima-emacs - A computer algebra system -- emacs interface
p maxima-share - A computer algebra system -- extra code
p maxima-src - A computer algebra system -- source code
p maxima-test - A computer algebra system -- test suite
p wxmaxima - a wxWidgets GUI for the computer algebra system maxima
p xmaxima - A computer algebra system -- x interface
$

$ aptitude search octave
p libinline-octave-perl - Perl5 module to Inline GNU Octave code
v octave -
v octave-doc -
v octave-emacsen -
p octave-epstk - GNU Octave encapsulated postscript toolkit
p octave-gpc - Octave binding for the General Polygon Clipper Library
v octave-headers -
v octave-htmldoc -
v octave-info -
p octave-pfstools - octave bindings for pfstools
p octave-plplot - Octave support for PLplot, a plotting library
p octave-sp - Semidefinite Programming functions for GNU Octave
p octave2.9 - GNU Octave language for numerical computations (dummy package)
p octave2.9-doc - PDF documentation on the GNU Octave language (dummy package)
p octave2.9-emacsen - Emacs support for the GNU Octave language (dummy package)
p octave2.9-headers - header files for the GNU Octave language (dummy package)
p octave2.9-htmldoc - HTML documentation on the GNU Octave language (dummy package)
p octave2.9-info - GNU Info documentation on the GNU Octave language (dummy package)
p octave3.0 - GNU Octave language for numerical computations (3.0 branch)
p octave3.0-doc - PDF documentation on the GNU Octave language (3.0 branch)
p octave3.0-emacsen - Emacs support for the GNU Octave language (3.0 branch)
p octave3.0-headers - header files for the GNU Octave language (3.0 branch)
p octave3.0-htmldoc - HTML documentation on the GNU Octave language (3.0 branch)
p octave3.0-info - GNU Info documentation on the GNU Octave language (3.0 branch)
p qtoctave - A Qt front-end to Octave
p shogun-octave - Large Scale Machine Learning Toolbox
$

In case you decide for another Matlab-like application, here some other good candidates:

http://freemat.sourceforge.net/
http://www.jmathlib.de/
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/
http://www.sagemath.org/
http://www.scilab.org/

Or check out this page:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuScience

Regards,

Mark