[Scilab-users] Installing Scilab under Linux (Mint / aka Ubuntu)

[Nikolay Strelkov]

Dear Claus!

As a temporarily fix you can read this solution on AskUbuntu -
https://askubuntu.com/a/1029164/66509 . I have tested it. Unpacking to home
folder works as expected (and as before).

Dear Scilab developers!

As long-time Scilab user I can't completely understand how this may happen.
Please take a look to the mentioned bugs in the linked answer above and
make real actions to fix these problems. Scilab is completely broken in
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (so without real actions it will be broken until 2023) and
does not work on development version 18.10 too. Also it does not work on
Debian 10. Please contact Debian and/or Ubuntu maintainers directly.

Scilab is very often used in educational purposes. For example we use it on
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS in our university to teach students.
It will be very bad if we lose such a convenient and useful software-tool.

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*With best regards,Ph.D., *


*associate professor at MPEI
<http://mpei.ru/lang/en/Pages/default.aspx>,IEEE member,maintainer of
Mathieu functions toolbox for Scilab
<http://atoms.scilab.org/toolboxes/Mathieu/>,Nikolay Strelkov.*

2018-07-25 15:44 GMT+03:00 Claus Futtrup <cfuttrup at gmail.com>:

> Hi there
>
> I've installed Linux Mint 19 (MATE) and installing Scilab using the
> Software Manager doesn't work. I cannot get the GUI to show up (CLI works
> fine). There are several bug reports out there, but AFAIK no remedy. P.S.
> Upon first installation I did check and see that the GUI worked, but it
> never worked since and uninstalling + installing (incl. the CLI, and BTW
> also including reboots) doesn't work.
>
> Therefore I decided to download the Linux 64-bit package from scilab.org
> ... when unpacked, I see there's not an installer ... but as the README
> says, launching ./bin/scilab gives me the GUI (yaayh!)
>
> The question is - from unpacking the software, how am I supposed to
> install this already compiled scilab in my Linux? ... Am I supposed to
> leave it in my /home directory? ... Sorry for my lack of knowledge here. I
> hope for some kind help.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Claus
>
>
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