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

[Stéphane Mottelet]

Le 11/10/2018 à 10:52, amonmayr at laas.fr a écrit :
> Le 10/10/2018 à 23:37, Pndsc a écrit :
>> 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.
> Hello,
>
> Did you try using the last nightly from the 6.x-branch, like I 
> suggested two days ago?
>
> https://antispam.utc.fr/proxy/2/c3RlcGhhbmUubW90dGVsZXRAdXRjLmZy/www.scilab.org/en/development/nightly_builds/branch60 
>
>
> Did it work?
> If it worked, it means this is not an unsolved problem, it is just a 
> matter of getting this fix to an official scilab release and wait for 
> it to be packaged by your distro.
It took already a lot of time to officially package Scilab 6.0.1 instead 
of Scilab 5.5.2  in Ubuntu. I am not sure that 6.0.2 will be the next 
(6.1, likely). These problems really don't serve the reputation of Scilab...

S.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Antoine
>>
>> I'm not the only person with this problem - theres an  Ubuntu 
>> stackexchange
>> thread with a suggested fix here
>> <https://antispam.utc.fr/proxy/2/c3RlcGhhbmUubW90dGVsZXRAdXRjLmZy/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://antispam.utc.fr/proxy/2/c3RlcGhhbmUubW90dGVsZXRAdXRjLmZy/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 
>> https://antispam.utc.fr/proxy/1/c3RlcGhhbmUubW90dGVsZXRAdXRjLmZy/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://antispam.utc.fr/proxy/2/c3RlcGhhbmUubW90dGVsZXRAdXRjLmZy/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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