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

[Claus Futtrup]

Hi Antoine and Nikolay

Thank you for your help. I see that the easiest way is, as Antoine 
wrote, to execute a shell and execute scilab from the shell (and for 
sure, keep the shell open).

I tried to create a desktop "launcher" in Linux Mint, executing a 
scilab.sh script and containing 'nohup scilab.sh & disown' ... to 
release scilab from the terminal, but at no luck.

I also tried to follow advice from askubuntu (below), including creating 
desktop files, etc. (see near the bottom), but still no luck.

Best regards,
Claus

On 25.07.2018 15:40, Nikolay Strelkov wrote:
> Dear Claus!
>
> As a temporarily fix you can read this solution on AskUbuntu - 
> https://askubuntu.com/a/1029164/66509 
> <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.
>
> ---
> /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 
> <mailto: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 <http://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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