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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Antoine and Nikolay<br>
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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).<br>
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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.<br>
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I also tried to follow advice from askubuntu (below), including
creating desktop files, etc. (see near the bottom), but still no
luck.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Claus<br>
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On 25.07.2018 15:40, Nikolay Strelkov wrote:<br>
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<div>Dear Claus!<br>
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As a temporarily fix you can read this solution on
AskUbuntu - <a
href="https://askubuntu.com/a/1029164/66509"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://askubuntu.com/a/<wbr>1029164/66509</a>
. I have tested it. Unpacking to home folder works as
expected (and as before).<br>
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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
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Scilab is very often used in educational purposes. For example
we use it on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS in our university to teach
students.<br>
<span id="gmail-result_box" class="gmail-" lang="en"><span
class="gmail-">It will be very bad if we lose such a
convenient and useful software-tool.</span></span>
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<div><i>With best regards,<br>
<span lang="en"><span>Ph.D., </span></span></i><i><span
lang="en"><span>associate</span>
professor at <a
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target="_blank"
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</span><span>IEEE member,</span><br>
maintainer of <a
href="http://atoms.scilab.org/toolboxes/Mathieu/"
target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">Mathieu
functions toolbox for Scilab</a>,<br>
<span>Nikolay</span> Strelkov.</i><br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2018-07-25 15:44 GMT+03:00 Claus
Futtrup <span dir="ltr"><<a
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rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi there<br>
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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.<br>
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Therefore I decided to download the Linux 64-bit
package from <a href="http://scilab.org"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">scilab.org</a> ... when
unpacked, I see there's not an installer ... but as
the README says, launching ./bin/scilab gives me the
GUI (yaayh!)<br>
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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.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
<br>
Claus<br>
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