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In order order to update (and/or build), you may need to uninstall scilab then build it and finally reinstall it to avoid conflicts between the two versions.

For now, scilab fails to run when launched from outside a terminal.

Hi!
I have some troubles with building scilab. Scilab requires hdf5 and I have community/hdf5 1.10.1-1 installed. But while building scilab a receive error: libhdf5.so.100: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (not literally). So to fix it I've tried

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libhdf5.so.101 /usr/lib/libhdf5.so.100

and recompiled scilab after that. No errors occurred, package building were successful, but I received some warnings and null pointer exceptions while Help Browser was in compilation process. So, I've tested Scilab Help Browser and found its partially out of order: the only operable sections of Scilab Help are
-- Scilab Help >> Scilab
-- Scilab Help >> Differential calculus, Integration
-- Scilab Help >> Elementary Functions
-- Scilab Help >> Linear Algebra
All sections below Linear Algebra are not showing their content without any error messages to terminal. Scilab core (plots and math operations) seems to be OK.

The same situation after downgrading hdf5 to 1.10.0 and subsequent recompilation of scilab.

Can anyone confirm problems with libhdf5.so.100 and Scilab Help Browser?
I suppose strict dependency to libhdf5.so.100 should be fixed.

Best wishes,
yevhen

@visionincision: could you try in a clean chroot?

@eoliano Hi, I have just tried this on a fresh install of Arch and am having the same error. I have verified and attempted to fix my java install with archlinux-java but no dice.

@visionincision: the _JAVA_OPTIONS are set by the build but for me there is no trouble to build scilab in a clean chroot

@fernando_morais: are you sure that you are using the latest PKGBUILD??? Because those deps are not used since a while (08/2016 for beanshell2 and 02/2016 for jogl2.2.4)

Hello! I face the following error:

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)

I can't build this package because it needs, as dependencies, "beanshell2" and "jogl2.2.4", but their names in the repositories, now, are "beanshell" and "jogl", and I've already installed them.

How can I overcome this error in order to install Scilab?

I am unable to build this package, with the build failing on the following error

picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: -Djava.awt.headless=true
Failed to execute SCI/modules/core/etc/core.start:
startModule: Could not find 'SCI/modules/core/macros/lib': Please check that macros have been built.

However, when I view my _JAVA_OPTIONS env variable, it is blank. I have also ensured that it is not being set in /etc/profile.d/jre.sh

I have OpenJDK 8 at the latest version in the arch repo's; 1.8.0_144-b01

@visionincision, @uboot: the new version (6.0.0-10) should fix Xcos

Hi,
I have just installed Scilab using this PKGBUILD and all seems to have gone well, until I attempt to launch Xcos. I am receiving the following exception:

java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to load the Batik library

However, I can confirm that I have java-batik installed.

@mgd: the pkgrel is regularly increased when some rebuild are necessary (see the log), there is sometimes some delay due the lack of free time.

What is the rationale behind not changing anything in the package albeit increasing the pkgrel number?

As I understand the PKGBUILD documentation pkgrel is supposed to be incremented as there are made fixes and enhancements to PKGBUILD.

Updated versions of required libraries will get used by simply rebuilding the old unaltered package.