Hi Antoine and Nikolay
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).
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.
I also tried to follow advice from askubuntu (below), including creating
desktop files, etc. (see near the bottom), but still no luck.
Best regards,
Claus
On 25.07.2018 15:40, Nikolay Strelkov wrote:
Dear Claus!
As a temporarily fix you can read this solution on AskUbuntu -
https://askubuntu.com/a/1029164/66509
<https://askubuntu.com/a/1029164/66509> . I have tested it. Unpacking
to home folder works as expected (and as before).
Dear Scilab developers!
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.
Scilab is very often used in educational purposes. For example we use
it on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS in our university to teach students.
It will be very bad if we lose such a convenient and useful
software-tool.
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<http://mpei.ru/lang/en/Pages/default.aspx>,
IEEE member,
maintainer of Mathieu functions toolbox for Scilab
<http://atoms.scilab.org/toolboxes/Mathieu/>,
Nikolay Strelkov./
2018-07-25 15:44 GMT+03:00 Claus Futtrup <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>:
Hi there
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.
Therefore I decided to download the Linux 64-bit package from
scilab.org <http://scilab.org> ... when unpacked, I see there's
not an installer ... but as the README says, launching
./bin/scilab gives me the GUI (yaayh!)
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.
Best regards,
Claus
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