[Scilab-users] Building on 32 bit Ubuntu 15.04

[Brenton Horne]

Hi,

I have tried to install Scilab 5.5.2 on my Ubuntu machine from source 
code. Now I know there's a binary but I want an installation that 
creates a /usr/bin/scilab file so that the command 'scilab' launches the 
Scilab GUI. I have tried creating a symbolic link (via sudo ln -s 
/path/to/scilab-5.5.2/bin /usr/bin/scilab) to allow this but for 
whatever reason running 'scilab' from the command line won't seem to 
launch the Scilab GUI after I create such a link.

My build attempt may be summarized by this bash script (before this 
script was when I downloaded the source tarball and the prerequisite 
tarball to Downloads using Chrome):|
|

    |||cd ~/Downloads for i in *.tar.gz do sudo tar xvzf $i -C /opt;
    done sudo chmod 777 -R /opt/scilab-5.5.2 cd /opt/scilab-5.5.2 sudo
    ./configure sudo make all|

​
no errors were encountered up until the last line, the last six lines of 
output were:

    |Found dependency from scilab-cli-bin to libstdc++ found
    Makefile:2092: recipe for target 'check-libstdcpp-dep' failed
    make[1]: *** [check-libstdcpp-dep] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving
    directory '/opt/scilab-5.5.2' Makefile:1541: recipe for target
    'all-recursive' failed make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1|

​
If it is important I have been trying to follow the "Compiling Scilab 
5.x under GNU-Linux Unix" Wiki article and to get any prerequisites not 
in the tarball I ran:

    |sudo apt-get build-dep scilab|

    ​

The version of Scilab found in the vivid repos is 5.5.1 so I thought 
that the dependencies for 5.5.2 would be similar enough to allow Scilab 
5.5.2 to be built using 5.5.1's dependencies.

Thanks for your time,
Brenton
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