Matlab installation issue on Fedora

When running ./install on Fedora, following error occurs:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error' what(): Failed to launch web window with error: Unable to launch the MATLABWindow application. The exit code was: 127

Issue occurs due to library file name mismatch (https://in.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/1699735-matlab-crashed-on-start-on-fedora-36#answer_995890). Please follow below steps

  1. cd [Matlab root folder]/bin/glnxa64
  2. sudo mv libfreetype.so.6.16.0{,.bak}
  3. sudo ln -sf /lib64/libfreetype.so.6 libfreetype.so.6

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