I don't use matlab a lot, which means I keep running into the same snags on installing.
No. 1: "error while loading shared libraries and libexpat.so.1: file too short" during install.
That's a broken links issue that can be resolved by setting the X and K flags during unzipping
unzip -X -K matlab_R<yourversion>.zip
Source: MATLAB answers
No. 2: Matlab crashed while trying to load the addon explorer, with some complaint about memory issues.
Apparently a Java issue to do with the open files limit (see this discussion).
I simply increased the system-wide hard limit, but would probably try doing it via ulimit -n first next time.
