Dear Paul! Seems to be incompatibility between upstream (Scilab.org) and GNU/Linux distributions.
You can install scilab 6.0.0-1 packages from 18.04 LTS to your 17.10 as described on AskUbuntu <https://askubuntu.com/a/1003065/66509>. -- *With best regards,Ph.D., * *associate professor at MPEI <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.* 2018-02-04 16:35 GMT+03:00 Paul Onions <ponion...@gmail.com>: > On 4 February 2018 at 00:57, Adelson <adelson.olive...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The only reply/workaround was provided by Clement David in the post you > > mention on Bugzilla, but it did not worked for me. > > I tried changing the thirdparty/java link to point to my system java > and/or moving the lib/thirdparty/libz* files as suggested in the > bugzilla discussion but got exactly the same results as reported by > adhefe (is that you?). I also tried completely uninstalling all > system java packages and so just relying on the scilab-6.0.0 tarfile > java but the error message remains as I reported initially. > Reinstalling the system java didn't change anything either (which BTW > is 8u151-b12-0ubuntu0.17.10.2). > > > If you can count on a distro's builded version of scilab 6.0, you have > the > > option to install it. > > Unfortunately Ubuntu 17.10 still seems to be on Scilab 5.5.2. I tried > compiling the latest source from git but get stuck during ./configure > with something else I don't understand:- > > configure: error: ARPACK library found, but seems not to work > properly. Please make sure you are using arpack-ng > > Not sure if this is a known problem, haven't had chance to go into it yet. > > Paul > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users@lists.scilab.org > http://lists.scilab.org/mailman/listinfo/users >
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