[scilab-Users] How to Install SCILAB 5.4.0 ALPHA 1 on Ubuntu 11.10

[Ricardo Fabbri]

More and more people are using the Scilab nightly builds:

http://www.scilab.org/communities/developer_zone/scilab_versions/development_version/nightly_builds

Ricardo Fabbri
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On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Samuel Enibe <samuel.enibe at unn.edu.ng> wrote:
> I have downloaded the 32 bit version of SCILAB 5.4.0 ALPHA 1 and extracted
> the files in a folder.
> i have tried to run it from that folder as I used to do with earlier
> versions of Ubuntu, but it does not work this time.
>
> Instead, I have the following error reports:
>
>
> "Could not load JVM dynamic library (libjava).
> Error: libjvm.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> If you are using a binary version of Scilab, please report a bug
> http://bugzilla.scilab.org/.
> If you are using a self-built version of Scilab, update the script
> bin/scilab to provide the path to the JVM.
> The problem might be related to SELinux. Try to deactivate it.
> Please also check that you are not trying to run Scilab 64 bits on a 32 bits
> system (or vice versa).
>
> Scilab cannot open JVM library."
>
>
> I would appreciate it if you could let me know how to complete the
> installation.
> --
> Samuel Ogbonna Enibe
> University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria