How to solve The Installer cannot be run from inside the DVD directory. Change to your home directory and execute this command: problem while installing MATLAB in Ubuntu

Solve "The Installer cannot be run from inside the DVD directory. Change to your home directory and execute this command:" problem in Ubuntu while installing MATLAB.

This is because, you cannot install the MATLAB from DVD directory. For example, /media/disk

For that, you need superuser permission. First execute following line.

sudo bash

then go to root by executing following line.

cd

now install using the following line,

/media/disk/install