SCILAB GRAPHICS ON UBUNTU LINUX 11.10

[Kristoff Bonne]

Hi Samuel,




On 16-04-12 01:49, Samuel Enibe wrote:
>   i have been a heavy user of the excellent software SCILAB for over a
> year now on the UBUNTU LINUX distributions.
> Recently, I purchased a new laptop and installed   UBUNTU 11.10 in it.
> Unfortunately, the SCILAB 5.3.3 I installed from the UBUNTU website does
> not display any graphic images, but does other jobs well. I tried to
> overcome this problem by downloading SCILAB 5.4.0 ALPHA and installing
> it manually but this does not work properly as it did in UBUNTU 11.04.
(...)
> It will be appreciated if you can help me solve this problem.

I had the same problem. I found this information that helped for me:
http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10106 (see comment 10)

sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-swx11



> Prof S O Enibe
> University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
I hope this helps.

Cheerio! Kr. Bonne.