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They say if u want something done youโd better do it your self. Since there was no deb package for the latest scilab 5.0.3. I had no choice than to build one from source. it wasnโt easy hunting down the needed dependency many of which are not available in the hardy repository. I had to download online from the intrepid repo . here are the thingsรย i did to get it to compile.
first download the latest scilab 5.0.3
wget http://www.scilab.org/download/5.0.3/scilab-5.0.3-src.tar.gz
mv it to your home directory
mv scilab-5.0.3-src.tar.gz $HOME
then we install the scilab dependencies that are available in that hardy repository
sudo apt-get build-dep scilab
sudo apt-get install liblaf-plugin-java libjgoodies-looks-java scilab-doc ant sun-java5-jdk
once that is done
time to download and install the external dependencies that are not available in hardy repo to make things easy we create a directory called dependencies
mkdir dependencies
now we enter into the dependencies directory we just created
cd dependencies
then we download the required dependencies
libflexdock-jni
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/libf/libflexdock-java/libflexdock-jni_0.5.1-dfsg1-4_i386.deb
libflexdock-java-doc
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/libf/libflexdock-java/libflexdock-java-doc_0.5.1-dfsg1-4_all.deb
libflexdock-java-demo
wget [url]http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/libf/libflexdock-java/libflexdock-java-demo_0.5.1-dfsg1-4_all.deb[/url]
libjogl-jni
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/libj/libjogl-java/libjogl-jni_1.1.1-2ubuntu1_i386.deb
libjogl-java
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/libj/libjogl-java/libjogl-java_1.1.1-2ubuntu1_all.deb
libjrosetta-java
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/libj/libjrosetta-java/libjrosetta-java_1.0.1+gpl-1_all.deb
libmatio0
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/libm/libmatio/libmatio0_1.3.3-2_i386.deb
libmatio-dev
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/libm/libmatio/libmatio-dev_1.3.3-2_i386.deb
libflexdock-java
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/libf/libflexdock-java/libflexdock-java_0.5.1-dfsg1-4_all.deb
libskinlf-java
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/libs/libskinlf-java/libskinlf-java_6.7-3_all.deb
once every last one of the dependency as been downloaded
we then install all of them with one command
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
once done . we have installed all the dependencies needed by the application.
NOTE: I didnt build this on a fresh ubuntu so they maybe some needed which didnt show up because there were already installed on my computer. so to be save make sure you install build-essential
sudo apt-get install build-essential
now we start the build.
cd ..
extract the scilab
tar -xzvf scilab-5.0.3-src.tar.gz
enter the directory
cd scilab-5.0.3
then run configure
./configure
it would take a while. and if all went well it would return no errors meaning all the dependencies needed for compiling the package is installed. now we run make
make
this would take a very very long time.. if you have anything else to do .. this is the right time.
i ran this on a pentium dual core 1.8ghz 2gb ram and it took almost 1 hour.
but once its done
sudo make install
it would also take some time to complete .. but once its done without errors that means that scilab 5.0.3 has been installed and can be found in /Application/Education/Scilab
hope some one finds this useful.
PS.. if u run ibex. you dont just
sudo apt-get build-dep scilab
sudo apt-get install liblaf-plugin-java libjgoodies-looks-java scilab-doc ant sun-java5-jdk
and
sudo apt-get install libflexdock-jni libskinlf-java libflexdock-java libmatio-dev libmatio0 libjrosetta-java jogl-java libjogl-jni libflexdock-java-demo libflexdock-java-doc
before starting the compiling
For those using Intrepid good news is that u dont have to go thru all the process i went thru just
In /etc/apt/sources, add the line:
deb http://www.scilab.org/team/sylvestre.ledru/repository/ubuntu/ intrepid main
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install scilab
