[scilab-Users] Re: SCILAB GRAPHICS ON UBUNTU LINUX 11.10

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le 16/04/2012 11:57, Kristoff Bonne a écrit :
> Hi Samuel,
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> 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.
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> 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)
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> sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-swx11
It is a bug from Ubuntu in the mesa packaging. They introduced a patch
which breaks mesa rendering...

CF:
https://jogamp.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=566
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa/+bug/965798
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa/+bug/877491
http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10106

Sylvestre