[scilab-Users] What's the easiest way to upgrade scilab?

[Antoine Monmayrant]

Steve Brown a écrit :
> I'm currently running SciLab 5.2.1 on Ubuntu 9.1
>
> What is the easiest way to upgrade to 5.2.2?
>
> Please be specific because I'm relatively new to using Linux.
>
> -- 
> Steve Brown
 From my experience on Fedora 9 -> 11, the best solution is just to grab 
the latest binary package from www.scilab.org and install it locally.
It goes something like:

cd ~
mkdir mylastscilab
cd mylastscilab
wget http://www.scilab.org/download/5.2.2/scilab-5.2.2.bin.linux-i686.tar.gz
# or wget 
http://www.scilab.org/download/5.2.2/scilab-5.2.2.bin.linux-x86_64.tar.gz 
if you use 64bit linux
untar -xvf scilab-5.2.2.bin.linux-i686.tar.gz
scilab-5.2.2/bin/scilab

enjoy!

I never use the version of Scilab that is provided by the official repos 
of my distro, it's always a bit outdated.

Antoine