[Scilab-users] Scilab-6.0.0 stopped working

[Paul Onions]

The scilab-6.0.0 binary release was working on my xubuntu 17.4 system,
then I upgraded to 17.10 and since then I see the following error
message when I run the 'scilab' command:-

Cannot find this look and feel:
[GTK look and feel - com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel] not
supported on this platform
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I see this issue has also been reported on bugzilla (
http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15145 ) but I don't see any
workaround there, even though it seems to be marked as resolved.

Anyone know anything more?  Confused,

Paul