[Scilab-users] Unable to update ATOMS packages - Scilab 6.0.1

[Nikolay Strelkov]

Dear all!

It is known bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1765503 .

The solution is to use binary version of Scilab 6 as described in this
AskUbuntu answer ( https://askubuntu.com/a/1029164/66509 ).

Official reaction from Scilab developers and/or Debian/Ubuntu maintainers
is highly needed and will be appreciated.
Otherwise Scilab 6 from deb-packages is useless waste of disk resources.
So please take all needed measures on distro-level.

--

*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.*


чт, 11 окт. 2018 г. в 9:12, Samuel Enibe <samuel.enibe at unn.edu.ng>:

> I have a similar problem with SCILAB on Ubuntu 1804.
>
> A solution to this problem from the developers of SCILAB or the Ubuntu
> maintainers will be most appreciated.
>
> Samuel Ogbonna Enibe
> University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 10:37 PM Pndsc <chrisp at poundsc.org> wrote:
>
>> So to update my own inquiry - as far as I can make out theres no solution
>> to
>> this problem. Or at least, I havent been able to fix it.
>>
>> I'm not the only person with this problem - theres an  Ubuntu
>> stackexchange
>> thread with a suggested fix here
>> <
>> https://askubuntu.com/questions/1029163/how-to-get-scilab-6-0-1-working-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts/1029164>
>>
>> by N0rbert which might prove useful for other people with issues of simply
>> getting Scilab to work, but does not solve my issue of ATOMS not updating
>> or
>> displaying an up to date package list.
>>
>> The HDF5 thing is a known issue and is on the bugtracker here thanks to
>> N0rbert:
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scilab/+bug/1765503
>>
>> I have to admit I have a hard time with believing that this issue has been
>> allowed to persist for so long with the current most widespread linux
>> distribution out there.
>>
>> Running an atomsInstall command doesnt work either:
>>
>> --> atomsInstall("coselica")
>> Scanning repository http://atoms.scilab.org/6.0 ... Done
>>
>> at line   265 of function atomsDESCRIPTIONget (
>>
>> /usr/share/scilab/modules/atoms/macros/atoms_internals/atomsDESCRIPTIONget.sci
>> line 284 )
>> at line    31 of function atomsIsPackage      (
>> /usr/share/scilab/modules/atoms/macros/atoms_internals/atomsIsPackage.sci
>> line 47 )
>> at line    69 of function atomsInstallList    (
>>
>> /usr/share/scilab/modules/atoms/macros/atoms_internals/atomsInstallList.sci
>> line 108 )
>> at line   233 of function atomsInstall        (
>> /usr/share/scilab/modules/atoms/macros/atomsInstall.sci line 249 )
>>
>> atomsDESCRIPTIONget: save
>> ('/home/chris/.Scilab/scilab-6.0.1/.atoms/packages') has failed.
>>
>> I dont know if its significant or not, but in
>> /usr/share/scilab/modules/atoms/etc/ , in the "repositories" text file,
>> the
>> url for the atoms repository for 6.0 (https://atoms.scilab.org/6.0/)
>> returns
>> a 443 forbidden error.
>>
>> Its late here but the next thing on my list to do tomorrow is to download
>> the package zips manually and installing via atomsInstall('pathtozip').
>>
>>
>>
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