• Download the install file from Download MATLAB, Simulink, Stateflow, and Other MathWorks Products
• Unzip and open downloaded directoy

Install

• Run the installer as a super user
• sudo ./install
• Follow the instructions of the installer and install in /usr/local/MATLAB/R2014a
• To add an entry to the launcher and some other features, install the matlab-support package:
• sudo apt-get install matlab-support
• During the installation you have to confirm the installation path of matlab and could restrict the installation only to certain users (which I did not require). In addition you could rename the GCC libraries, but I had no problems so far so I didn't deactivate those.
• After completion, you have to change the ownership of the .matlab folder in the home folder to your own user account if you do not want to run Matlab as a super user.
• cd ~
• sudo chown username -R ~/.matlab

Now Matlab should also be launchable through unity and should work as intended.

Issue

There was always showing an error about opengl rendering.

com.jogamp.opengl.GLException: X11GLXDrawableFactory - Could not initialize shared resources for X11GraphicsDevice[type .x11, connection :0, unitID 0, handle 0x0, owner false, ResourceToolkitLock[obj 0x535b6672, isOwner false, <15a2f11f, 7c843551>[count 0, qsz 0, owner <NULL>]]]
at jogamp.opengl.x11.glx.X11GLXDrawableFactory$SharedResourceImplementation.createSharedResource(X11GLXDrawableFactory.java:326)
at jogamp.opengl.SharedResourceRunner.run(SharedResourceRunner.java:297)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: com.jogamp.opengl.GLException: glXGetConfig(0x1) failed: error code Unknown error code 6
at jogamp.opengl.x11.glx.X11GLXGraphicsConfiguration.glXGetConfig(X11GLXGraphicsConfiguration.java:570)
at jogamp.opengl.x11.glx.X11GLXGraphicsConfiguration.XVisualInfo2GLCapabilities(X11GLXGraphicsConfiguration.java:500)
at jogamp.opengl.x11.glx.X11GLXGraphicsConfigurationFactory.chooseGraphicsConfigurationXVisual(X11GLXGraphicsConfigurationFactory.java:434)
at jogamp.opengl.x11.glx.X11GLXGraphicsConfigurationFactory.chooseGraphicsConfigurationStatic(X11GLXGraphicsConfigurationFactory.java:240)
at jogamp.opengl.x11.glx.X11GLXDrawableFactory.createMutableSurfaceImpl(X11GLXDrawableFactory.java:524)
at jogamp.opengl.x11.glx.X11GLXDrawableFactory.createDummySurfaceImpl(X11GLXDrawableFactory.java:535)
at jogamp.opengl.x11.glx.X11GLXDrawableFactory$SharedResourceImplementation.createSharedResource(X11GLXDrawableFactory.java:283)
... 2 more

NVDIA Forum said it was a problem with Driver Version 367.27.

It might be a case that your graphic driver doesn't support hardware OpenGL.

One solution is to to start with the softwre implementation of OpenGL.

Set your preferences so that MATLAB uses software OpenGL to render graphics in all future sessions. This command does not affect the current session.

Software OpenGL — Type opengl('save','software') at the MATLAB command prompt. Then, restart MATLAB.

Reference

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Resolving Low-Level Graphics Issues