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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hello Claus,<br>
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Le 25/07/2018 à 20:01, Claus Futtrup a écrit :<br>
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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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Well, the best solution I found is to use a dropdown terminal (like
yakuake for example): pressing F12 the terminal appears/disappears.
This way, I never have to close it and it stays open with a bunch
tabs with the most common command line applications I use.<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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Well, I think the .desktop approach is the best one here.<br>
You can also try to use a command launcher: with the Ubuntu I use
(16.04), I have Alt+F2 that opens a proper command launcher and I
can run any command line app. Note that it differs from pressing the
Windows key that will only launch applications that have a
corresponding *.desktop file.<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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I don't see your attempt here.<br>
If you installed scilab from the repos, you should have a *.desktop
file to tinker with in order to call your up-to-date scilab instead
of the repo one.<br>
On my system the desktop files of the repos applications are here:<br>
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/usr/share/app-install/desktop/scilab:scilab.desktop<br>
/usr/share/applications/scilab.desktop<br>
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while I put the one of the applications I installed by hand here:<br>
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~/.local/share/applications/<br>
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Hope it helps,<br>
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Antoine<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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Dear Scilab developers!<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
maintainers directly.<br>
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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
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professor at <a
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functions toolbox for Scilab</a>,<br>
<span>Nikolay</span> Strelkov.</i><br>
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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>
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Claus<br>
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