Update for 23/10/18. After reading up on amd drivers it looked like my remaining issue was my old AMD graphics card, an R7 240 from circa 2014. I removed this card, swapped my 1050Ti card from my other desktop machine and booted to a black screen so required a fresh install of Kubuntu 18.04.
Installing Scilab from repositories gave me previously encountered errors to do with Java. I followed and implemented the fixes from: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1029163/how-to-get-scilab-6-0-1-working-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts/1029164 for reverting to OpenJDK 8, again. Scilab now runs, Xcos graphs will display (so apparently an nvidia card fixes that issue) but I am left with my original issue with ATOMS not updating and saying: No ATOMS module is available. Please, check your Internet connection or make sure that your OS is compatible with ATOMS --> atomsSystemUpdate Scanning repository http://atoms.scilab.org/6.0 ... Done at line 265 of function atomsDESCRIPTIONget ( /usr/share/scilab/modules/atoms/macros/atoms_internals/atomsDESCRIPTIONget.sci line 284 ) at line 16 of function atomsSystemUpdate ( /usr/share/scilab/modules/atoms/macros/atomsSystemUpdate.sci line 33 ) atomsDESCRIPTIONget: save ('/home/chris/.Scilab/scilab-6.0.1/.atoms/packages') has failed. Alternatives: Downloading nightlies or the standard 6.0.1 from the website manually leads me back on the libgfortran merry-go-round, fixed again with installing gcc-7 g++-7 and again resulting in the X11glxdrawablefactory stuff. I've done the export mesa to version 3.0 bit. I cant imagine what piece of voodoo I'm missing that managed to fix my problem last time, I'm pretty sure I've gone through this thread and N0rberts askubuntu responses and repeated just about all of it. -- Sent from: http://mailinglists.scilab.org/Scilab-users-Mailing-Lists-Archives-f2602246.html _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@lists.scilab.org http://lists.scilab.org/mailman/listinfo/users