How to install scilab 5.4.0-beta-1 on Ubuntu 11.10

[Samuel Enibe]

Sirs,

I would like to explore the newly released SCILAB 5.4.0-beta-1 on my UBUNTU
11.10 laptop (32-bit). I have downloaded and untarred the binary version of
the release.

However, the software does not run, but rather gives this error message

*"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/."
*
A similar problem prevented me from testing SCILAB 5.4.0-alpha-1.

Could you please suggest what I should do to get it working.
-- 
Samuel Ogbonna Enibe
University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
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