What's the easiest way to upgrade scilab?

[Huub]

On 4/24/10 9:32 PM, Antoine Monmayrant wrote:
> 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 of my distro, it's always a bit outdated.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
>

Keep in mind that with the latest Fedora versions you'll have to resolve 
the SELinux warnings to get Scilab to work. For 5.2.2 the warnings (and 
subsequent actions) were down to 2 and fairly easy and quickly to deal with.