opening matlab on ubuntu

I have successfully installed Matlab 2011 on my Ubuntu Mate 17.04 machine. The installation directory is /home/matlab For instance, my installation directory looks like (see image below) Now I read an article on Mathworks website that asks me to go to the bin directory and type matlab to open the application The content of my bin directory looks like I typed matlab The terminal output is /usr/bin/matlab: 1: /home/snow/matlab/bin/util/oscheck.sh: /lib/libc.so.6: not found /home/snow/matlab/bin/glnx86/MATLAB: error while loading shared libraries: libXp.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I tried other alternatives like . matlab bash matlab ./matlab etc. but was not able to open the application. Any help? I have also given full permission (using chmod 777) to all files present in the bin directory.