[SOLVED] has anybody gotten to install scilab 5.03 on ubuntu

[bigbrovar]

I tried building from soorce but met with some serious dependency errors. the version in the repo is very old and the is no packaged deb for ubuntu yet.

[bigbrovar]

there say if u want something done you'd better do it your self.. since they was no deb package for the latest scilab 5.0.3. i had no choice than to build one from source. it wasnt easy hunting down the needed dependency many of which are not availablein the hardy repository. i had to download the from online from the intrepid repo . here was what i did



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 http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/libf/libflexdock-java/libflexdock-java-demo_0.5.1-dfsg1-4_all.deb


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

Then, the classical commands:

aptitude update
aptitude install scilab

[cpgos]

bigbrovar,
I have followed your installation instructions but have also had some difficulties that I would appreciate help with.

The Scilab gz file was downloaded and saved in $HOME, however on executing sudo apt-get build-dep scilab, a message was displayed saying that a source package for Scilab could not be found; also the following sudo apt-get in your instructions indicated that scilab-doc could not be found.

Next the ten dependencies that you list were downloaded to the directory "dependencies" and on executing the command to install them the output with various errors shown in the attached file was generated. The installation of the dependencies was repeated several times as a message was displayed saying that Fortran 77 and C++ compilers were needed, these were eventually located and installed.

Is the main problem associated with installing the dependencies? I would appreciate any comments that you may have on how to overcome the errors shown in the attached file.

Best regards,
cpgos

[bigbrovar]

hmm looks to me that u may not have all your repositories enabled ... u have to enable all your ubuntu repositories .. because matlab is naturally in the ubuntu repos. but an older version. make sure that u have all your repos enabled esp the universe repo

[cpgos]

Thank you for your response and my apologies for not responding before now.

I have followed your suggestion but am still having a problem locating the correct version of a package required for libmatio0, the package being libc6 (>= 2.7). As you can see from the attached file, libc.jpg, the installed version is 2.6.1 but version 2.7 or greater is required. Also, it does not seem to be possible to opt for this version via Package/Force Version.

As libmatio0 seems to be involved in compatibility with Matlab I would like to have this facility available.

In addition, the other attached file, dependencies.txt, shows the messages in relation to the above problem. Finally, the package zlib1g-dev has been located and installed.

Any suggestions that you may have would be appreciated.

Best regards,
cpgos

[cpgos]

It seems to me that libc version 2.7 is not available for ubuntu 7.10, which in turn implies that scilab 5.0.3 cannot be used due to dependency problems.

Could somebody please confirm this?

Best regards,
cpgos