MATLAB 7 SP2 on FC4 (x86_64)

The installer will not run on a default install. To get that working, I needed to install the xorg-x11-deprecated-libs.x86_64 package. It appears to contain some libraries needed by the graphical installer. Once installed, the 64bit version spits out the following error (the 32bit install is fine):

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*** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0000000000598840 ***
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The fix is:

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$ LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1
$ export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL
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It's best to put these lines at the top of $MATLAB/bin/.matlab7rc.sh
(where $MATLAB is the installation directory).

Got this little hint from the MATLAB Support site.