Re: octave versus scilab

2012-04-02 Thread Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen
see below: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 05:12, Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson wrote: > On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 09:54:50PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > > hi, > > I want to choose between octave and scilab, somebody can give us an > > overview > > about advantages and disa

Re: octave versus scilab

2012-04-02 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 09:54:50PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > hi, > I want to choose between octave and scilab, somebody can give us an > overview > about advantages and disadvantages for each. > Now I am using scilab 5.3 and I have a problem ( with graphic interfac

octave versus scilab

2012-04-01 Thread abdelkader belahcene
hi, I want to choose between octave and scilab, somebody can give us an overview about advantages and disadvantages for each. Now I am using scilab 5.3 and I have a problem ( with graphic interface) because it uses java and opengl for the interface. the devloppers said that the pb will be

Re: scilab crashed

2011-03-18 Thread Zbigniew Komarnicki
On Friday 18 of March 2011 11:26:33 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 04:24:33PM +0100, Zbigniew Komarnicki wrote: > > Thank you. The problem is with atlas package. I removed all atlas > > packages and now scilab > > (and also octave, see my message: > &

Re: scilab crashed

2011-03-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 04:24:33PM +0100, Zbigniew Komarnicki wrote: > Thank you. The problem is with atlas package. I removed all atlas packages > and > now scilab > (and also octave, see my message: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/03/msg01247.html > ) > w

Re: scilab crashed

2011-03-17 Thread Zbigniew Komarnicki
es. > > Greetings, Thank you. The problem is with atlas package. I removed all atlas packages and now scilab (and also octave, see my message: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/03/msg01247.html ) work correctly. I suspect that the bug is in atlas package for my processor,

Re: scilab crashed

2011-03-17 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:32:07 +0100, Zbigniew Komarnicki wrote: > Do you have also such problem ? (next time you can consider using www.pastebin.com or such services to send big logs...) > $ /usr/bin/scilab > > (process:4809): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. >

Re: dpkg broken because of scilab-sivp

2009-09-04 Thread Mike P
>> $ apt-get remove scilab-sivp >> ... >> dpkg: error processing sivp (--configure): >> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > > However, in general, you can bypass this error--"subprocess post-installation > script returned

Re: dpkg broken because of scilab-sivp

2009-09-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 04 September 2009 09:03:34 Mike P wrote: > $ apt-get remove scilab-sivp > ... > dpkg: error processing sivp (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 This error is because of something that happened before it, that usually generates

dpkg broken because of scilab-sivp

2009-09-04 Thread Mike P
Hi, After dist-upgrade I am left with the package scilab-sivp which refuses to be removed and also precludes me from installing anything else. It seems that scilab-sivp depends on sivp package, but since sivp is not installed dpkg fails. I can't either install sivp or uninstall scilab-siv

Re: Scilab in etch ?

2006-12-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Scilab is not free software [1] and therefore cannot be included in >> debian proper, ever. Unless they change their license. > > Ah, I see. Ok, but it once was in sarge, if I remember correctly and it is > in unstable now (http://packages.qa.deb

Re: Scilab in etch ?

2006-12-14 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 17:32 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Scilab is not free software [1] and therefore cannot be included in > debian proper, ever. Unless they change their license. It's in non-free, but with RC bugs, and no version in testing, only unstable. -- Cheers, Sve

Re: Scilab in etch ?

2006-12-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a chance that we will get scilab in etch ? > We work quite a lot with it and it would be much nicer to install a .deb > then to install it from source... Scilab is not free software [1] and therefore cannot be included in debian proper, ever. Un

Scilab in etch ?

2006-12-14 Thread Markus . Grunwald
Hello, Is there a chance that we will get scilab in etch ? We work quite a lot with it and it would be much nicer to install a .deb then to install it from source... cu Markus Grunwald Softwareentwicklung PRÜFTECHNIK Condition Monitoring GmbH Oskar-Messter-Straße 19-21 85737 Ismaning

Re: matlab - scilab

2001-04-06 Thread David Purton
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Sergio E . Schvezov wrote: > hi i'm posting here to see if u can recommend me any good math > program like mathlab > > i've tried scilab (binary) and if i execute scilab it does nothing > and if i execute scilex it says i need libtermcap 2 wich i

Re: matlab - scilab

2001-04-06 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Eric Richardson wrote: > "Timothy J. Ford > > > > you should try octave, it's very good. > > > How does this compare to Mathematica? For a GPL symbolic algebra system, you can try Maxima. For a free (as in beer for non-commercial use) closed source option, look at MuPaD (htt

Re: matlab - scilab

2001-04-06 Thread Timothy J. Ford
Octave is a Matlab-like numerical package which is distributed under GNU General Public License rules. For matrix and linear algebra computations it is ideal. Mathematica is mainly a symbolic algebra tool and is not free. I have not used it myself. Octave does not have a symbolic algebra compon

Re: matlab - scilab

2001-04-06 Thread Eric Richardson
"Timothy J. Ford > > you should try octave, it's very good. > How does this compare to Mathematica? Eric :-)

Re: matlab - scilab

2001-04-06 Thread Timothy H. Keitt
Your looking for Octave. Tim Sergio E . Schvezov wrote: hi i'm posting here to see if u can recommend me any good math program like mathlab i've tried scilab (binary) and if i execute scilab it does nothing and if i execute scilex it says i need libtermcap 2 wich i tried to apt

Re: matlab - scilab

2001-04-06 Thread Timothy J. Ford
you should try octave, it's very good. -- Professor Timothy J. Ford | Department of Mathematics | "Don't worry, Skipper, Florida Atlantic University| everything's in my hands!" Boca Raton, FL 33431-0991 | -- Gilligan

Re: matlab - scilab

2001-04-06 Thread Sebastiaan
if u can recommend me any good math program like > mathlab > > i've tried scilab (binary) and if i execute scilab it does nothing and if i execute scilex it says i > need libtermcap 2 wich i tried to apt get but it said it was in a way, not there anymore > > thank u

matlab - scilab

2001-04-06 Thread Sergio E . Schvezov
hi i'm posting here to see if u can recommend me any good math program like mathlab i've tried scilab (binary) and if i execute scilab it does nothing and if i execute scilex it says i need libtermcap 2 wich i tried to apt get but it said it was in a way, not there anymore than

Re: Scilab

1998-11-20 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
Hello, I have debian 2.0 too. My window manager is WindowMaker. My scilab works well. I've compiled it myself. Have you tried to do that. Is really easy, once you have the development (gcc and g77) stuff installed. The only problem I get is that the graphic window doesn't pop up

Re: Scilab

1998-11-20 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
> Can you tell me the versions of Debian and windows manager. > > I have Debian 2.0 with kde windows manager and it works just fine. > Ok...I'm running Debian 2.0 with libc6 and libc5 and my windowmanager is Afterstep (I'm not sure about versions here and I dont have my machine internetconnect

Re: Scilab

1998-11-19 Thread Bostjan JERKO
On 19.11.98 12:59:00 ojs wrote: >Hello. > >I have a slight problem running my Scilab. I installed it successfully >the other day but every time I try to run it nothing happens. The machine >just seems to run a script that does nothing and returns back to the >command prompt.

Scilab

1998-11-19 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Hello. I have a slight problem running my Scilab. I installed it successfully the other day but every time I try to run it nothing happens. The machine just seems to run a script that does nothing and returns back to the command prompt. I was wondering if this had something to do with libc5

Re: scilab demos crash whole scilab

1998-09-16 Thread Jan Krupa
>On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 03:46:51PM +0200, Jan Krupa wrote: >> $ Scilab: warning, error event receieved: >> X Error of failed request: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) >> Major opcode of failed request: 54 (X_FreePixmap) >> Resource id in failed request:

Re: scilab demos crash whole scilab

1998-09-16 Thread Pierre Blanchet
> > I have installed scilab-2.4 (binaries form ftp.inria.fr) > and when I start it, it works but when I choose from menu > demos scilab crashes with the following messages: > > [1] 410 > $ Scilab: warning, error event receieved: > X Error of failed request: B

Re: scilab demos crash whole scilab

1998-09-16 Thread jdassen
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 03:46:51PM +0200, Jan Krupa wrote: > $ Scilab: warning, error event receieved: > X Error of failed request: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) > Major opcode of failed request: 54 (X_FreePixmap) > Resource id in failed request: 0x0 > Serial n

scilab demos crash whole scilab

1998-09-16 Thread Jan Krupa
I have installed scilab-2.4 (binaries form ftp.inria.fr) and when I start it, it works but when I choose from menu demos scilab crashes with the following messages: [1] 410 $ Scilab: warning, error event receieved: X Error of failed request: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) Major

Re: Scilab 2.4 x WindowMaker

1998-08-10 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
Marcelo E. Magallon writes: >> Today I´ve compiled the scilab 2.4 math package >> (http://www-rocq.inria.fr/scilab/) in my Debian 2.0 machine. Compiling >> was smooth. >> >> But I got a weird surprise after that. Every time scilab tries to open a >&

Re: Scilab 2.4 x WindowMaker

1998-08-10 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sat, Aug 08, 1998 at 04:01:25PM -0300, Paulo José da Silva e Silva wrote: > Today I´ve compiled the scilab 2.4 math package > (http://www-rocq.inria.fr/scilab/) in my Debian 2.0 machine. Compiling > was smooth. > > But I got a weird surprise after that. Every time scilab

Scilab 2.4 x WindowMaker

1998-08-08 Thread Paulo José da Silva e Silva
Hello, Today I´ve compiled the scilab 2.4 math package (http://www-rocq.inria.fr/scilab/) in my Debian 2.0 machine. Compiling was smooth. But I got a weird surprise after that. Every time scilab tries to open a graphic window, the window maker (WindowMaker 0.17.5) doesn´t do it. I blame

Re: scilab not working?

1998-06-19 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
I'm using scilab 2.3 under Debian bo, however it is not an .deb package. I just downloaded the sources from ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/Projects/Meta2/Scilab/scilab-2.3-src.tar.gz (Well, now only wersion 2.3.1 is available: ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/Projects/Meta2/Scilab/scilab-2.3.1-src.tar

Re: scilab not working?

1998-06-19 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Mark Phillips wrote: : I've just installed scilab_2.2-4.deb from the non-free section of hamm. : But it doesn't seem to be working. I type "scilab" at the prompt and it : exits without giving any error messages, without poping up any windows or : any

scilab not working?

1998-06-19 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I've just installed scilab_2.2-4.deb from the non-free section of hamm. But it doesn't seem to be working. I type "scilab" at the prompt and it exits without giving any error messages, without poping up any windows or anything. It just does nothing! Am I doing somethi