Problem with installing Matlab R2017b on Ubuntu

I have a fresh ubuntu-gnome and I tried to install Matlab R2017b downloaded today (23/11/2017) from the official website. When I run the command

sudo ./install

the installer window doesn't start and I get only the following message

Preparing installation files ...
Installing ...
Finished

If I run

./install

without sudo the installer window starts but (of course) I can't write on /usr/local.

Can you help me with this?

[Chaitanya Joshi]

I had the exact same problem, and found a working solution here (it's the answer by Algebreaker).

[Alessandro Budroni]

Thank you

[Bonnie Lucas]

Thank you so much - I spent the morning banging my head against the wall

Answer 1

[Tanmoy Dasgupta]

You probably are running a Wayland session. You can verify this by typing the following in your terminal.

echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE

Matlab doesn't work in Wayland. You should login into Ubuntu with an X11 session. Matlab installer should work just fine.