How to run Matlab without root permissions

If you have issues with Matlab to run commands without root, probably you will see this:

INFO: READ:  OnSendHeadersMessage{type=OnSendHeaders, uid=557, browserContextId=0, requestId=57, url=https://localhost:31515/messageservice/async, method=POST, headers=Origin: https://localhost:31515

X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/43.0.2357.52 Safari/537.36

Content-Type: application/json

Accept: */*

Referer: https://localhost:31515/remote/proxy/1.5/iframeProxyRelease.html

Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate

Accept-Language: en-us

Cookie: JSESSIONID2=aUWOscLC3o6cqUdV; ssnc=24WR68u39rLEOyhW



}, SocketInfo{channelId=0, browserId=-1, channelType=Main}

To fix it, just add permissions to your user with:

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /usr/local/MATLAB/R2018b

If you run Matlab again, you will see this:

at com.mathworks.mlwidgets.shortcuts.ShortcutUtils.getShortcutsFile(ShortcutUtils.java:703)
at com.mathworks.mlwidgets.shortcuts.ShortcutUtils.saveDocument(ShortcutUtils.java:2034)
at com.mathworks.mlwidgets.shortcuts.ShortcutUtils.createInitialFavorites(ShortcutUtils.java:322)
Cannot write to preference file "matlab.prf" in "/home/$USER/.matlab/R2018b".
Check file permissions.
The desktop configuration was not saved successfully

To fix it, just add permissions to your local matlab folder:

sudo chown -R $USER /home/$USER/.matlab/R2018b/ 

Enjoy it!

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