Problem with Matlab and Fedora 7-X_64

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Thursday 07 February 2008, Brent Snow, Mr. wrote:
> Hi All,
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>             We have recently acquired a server with 2 Intel Xeon
> quad-core processors (8 processors in total) , 16 GB of RAM, and 500GB
> of Hard Disk. It is running Fedora 7 X-64. It has all of its updates and
> is working ok, other than an annoyance of not being able to forward X-11
> via SSH, even though it is turned on in the sshd_config file.   The
> problem is when I try and install Matlab, on this system it is reporting
> the following error
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> "error while loading shared libraries: libXp.so.6: cannot open shared
> object file: No such file or directory"
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> If I try and place the libXp.so.6 into a network installed version of
> Matlab, then it gives me an ELF error that I do not know.

Try run 
yum install libXp 

you should then be ok   is the version of matlab 64 bit or 32 bit?  if its 32 
bit you will need to make sure you have all the needed 32 bit libraries

Dennis