<div dir="ltr"><div>I have a similar problem with SCILAB on Ubuntu 1804.</div><div><br></div><div>A solution to this problem from the developers of SCILAB or the Ubuntu maintainers will be most appreciated.</div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Samuel Ogbonna Enibe<br>University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 10:37 PM Pndsc <<a href="mailto:chrisp@poundsc.org">chrisp@poundsc.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">So to update my own inquiry - as far as I can make out theres no solution to<br>
this problem. Or at least, I havent been able to fix it.<br>
<br>
I'm not the only person with this problem - theres an Ubuntu stackexchange<br>
thread with a suggested fix here<br>
<<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/1029163/how-to-get-scilab-6-0-1-working-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts/1029164" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://askubuntu.com/questions/1029163/how-to-get-scilab-6-0-1-working-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts/1029164</a>> <br>
by N0rbert which might prove useful for other people with issues of simply<br>
getting Scilab to work, but does not solve my issue of ATOMS not updating or<br>
displaying an up to date package list.<br>
<br>
The HDF5 thing is a known issue and is on the bugtracker here thanks to<br>
N0rbert:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scilab/+bug/1765503" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scilab/+bug/1765503</a><br>
<br>
I have to admit I have a hard time with believing that this issue has been<br>
allowed to persist for so long with the current most widespread linux<br>
distribution out there. <br>
<br>
Running an atomsInstall command doesnt work either:<br>
<br>
--> atomsInstall("coselica")<br>
Scanning repository <a href="http://atoms.scilab.org/6.0" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://atoms.scilab.org/6.0</a> ... Done<br>
<br>
at line 265 of function atomsDESCRIPTIONget (<br>
/usr/share/scilab/modules/atoms/macros/atoms_internals/atomsDESCRIPTIONget.sci<br>
line 284 )<br>
at line 31 of function atomsIsPackage (<br>
/usr/share/scilab/modules/atoms/macros/atoms_internals/atomsIsPackage.sci<br>
line 47 )<br>
at line 69 of function atomsInstallList (<br>
/usr/share/scilab/modules/atoms/macros/atoms_internals/atomsInstallList.sci<br>
line 108 )<br>
at line 233 of function atomsInstall (<br>
/usr/share/scilab/modules/atoms/macros/atomsInstall.sci line 249 )<br>
<br>
atomsDESCRIPTIONget: save<br>
('/home/chris/.Scilab/scilab-6.0.1/.atoms/packages') has failed.<br>
<br>
I dont know if its significant or not, but in<br>
/usr/share/scilab/modules/atoms/etc/ , in the "repositories" text file, the<br>
url for the atoms repository for 6.0 (<a href="https://atoms.scilab.org/6.0/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://atoms.scilab.org/6.0/</a>) returns<br>
a 443 forbidden error.<br>
<br>
Its late here but the next thing on my list to do tomorrow is to download<br>
the package zips manually and installing via atomsInstall('pathtozip').<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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