Tested the scilab 5.5.2 for ubuntu which works great.
However, I did not test it before applying the jogl2 patch :-o.
Had a look at the source and it seems that the Ubuntu version is patched to use
the
generic version of jogl2.
I would like to try and get this patch integrated in the Scilab
I tested the proposed package on Lubuntu 17.10.
I tested some example programs they use either:
GLProfile glp = GLProfile.getDefault();
Or they use the GLCanvas default constructor.
Before this version all these examples emitted the typical error found
in the previous version of jogl2. The new pa