Comments on: How to install scilab 5.0.3 on Ubuntu 8.4

By: Pool Installation

Pool Installation — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:41:00 +0000

Great! Thank for information, I’m looking for it for
a long time,

By: Bigbrovar

Bigbrovar — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:46:38 +0000

am glad it worked for you .. thanks for the feedback

By: tibytza

tibytza — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:53:01 +0000

thank you!!

i finaly did it!

i decided to move from windows to ubuntu 9.04 and scilab is a good alternative for matlab. thanks.

with your help i finaly did it!

By: parhyang

parhyang — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:16:59 +0000

Hi Sylvestre (from Scilab) i was install from your debs repos. but.. ‘copy’ and ‘paste’ function only works on SciLab,not with others apps. please hlp me, i want to make a tutorials with OOo Writer. thanks

By: parhyang

parhyang — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:27:41 +0000

thanks for this tutors, i think build from source or debs repo’s are good choice. last day i download ~100 tgz binary and try to use on my pc intrepid but get unlucky, sometimes its crash when run SciPad and load into SciLab. i don’t know..

By: How to install Scilab-5.1 on Ubuntu LInux « bigbrovar

How to install Scilab-5.1 on Ubuntu LInux « bigbrovar — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 07:57:58 +0000

[...] I remembered the last time i had to install a 5.x version of scilab on ubuntu (hardy heron) it was a hellish experience because there was no installable binary package and i had to download and compile from source which was just a PITA because most of the dependencies needed were not available in the Hady Heron Repo. what made things worse is after compiling, The package was very buggy and kept crashing especially when i try the translation tool from the application menu. Rather than witch and whine about this, in true Free software Culture i filled a bug which thankfully as been fixed in the latest version 5.1. [...]

By: J2K

J2K — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:58:58 +0000

If you have problems with “package/jar jhall” you probably missing jhall.jar in your “/usr/share/java”. Try to download java.help from Sun and manually copy jhall.jar into this location.

By: Tuxi

Tuxi — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:40:01 +0000

Thanks for the Intrepid Ibex instructions. I just successfully installed Scilab 5.

I found I had to manually create a menu entry. I’m not sure if this is common.

By: swagat

swagat — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:31:07 +0000

Hi,

I installed all packages as mentioned in this page, but still I am getting the same error. Please see the output of following commands:

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$ sudo apt-get install libflexdock-jni libskinlf-java libflexdock-java libmatio-dev libmatio0 libjrosetta-java libjogl-java libjogl-jni libflexdock-java-demo libflexdock-java-doc
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
libflexdock-jni is already the newest version.
libskinlf-java is already the newest version.
libflexdock-java is already the newest version.
libmatio-dev is already the newest version.
libmatio0 is already the newest version.
libjrosetta-java is already the newest version.
libjogl-java is already the newest version.
libjogl-jni is already the newest version.
libflexdock-java-demo is already the newest version.
libflexdock-java-doc is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

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$ sudo apt-get install liblaf-plugin-java libjgoodies-looks-java scilab-doc ant sun-java5-jdk
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
liblaf-plugin-java is already the newest version.
libjgoodies-looks-java is already the newest version.
scilab-doc is already the newest version.
ant is already the newest version.
sun-java5-jdk is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

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$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
build-essential is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

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$ sudo apt-get build-dep scilab
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

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$ ./configure

checking jogl… /usr/share/java//jogl.jar
checking jhall… no
configure: error: Could not find or use the Java package/jar jhall used by Scilab Help Browser (looking for package javax.help.JHelp)

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Please help. thanks,
Swagat

By: Bigbrovar

Bigbrovar — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:04:56 +0000

i got round that proble by installing scilab 4.x ( the one in the official ubuntu repositories) help package which is scilab-docs so

sudo apt-get install liblaf-plugin-java libjgoodies-looks-java scilab-doc ant sun-java5-jdk

i stated this in the guide … make sure you follow the guide throughly without missing a step