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Those who want to use the math software Scilab on Ubuntu or its derivatives fail when installing Scilab via package management. It does not work as expected. This how-to describes how to install Scilab system-wide on Ubuntu Linux.
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DISLIN is a very nice and well-documented 2-D and 3-D plotting framework for Fortran and some other programming languages. Furthermore DISLIN provides some widgets to […]
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For personal purpose I wrote some toolboxes for Scilab for statistics and data management. My toolboxes are available as source and binary distributions and compatible […]
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For the new Ubuntu 20.04-LTS-version Focal Fossa and Dislin 11.3 refer the new article Install DISLIN 11.3 on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa DISLIN is a […]
Continue reading »To add another language in the spell checker of the markdown editor MdCharm in Windows or GNU/Linux, download the desired dictionary (*.oxt) of OpenOffice. Unzip […]
Continue reading »In wxMaxima 13 (Linux Mint 17, Ubuntu 14.04) it is not possible to type brackets as “[” or “]”. The ppa from István Blahota provides […]
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Since GTK 3 has been introduced Java Swing applications have a bug in displaying their menus when using the GTK Look and Feel (LaF). At […]
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Version 3.8 of Octave has an unofficial and experimental GUI similar to Matlab. But on my Linux Mint 17 (Quiana), based on Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty […]
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Updated on Nov. 7th, 2020 A new IDE for Fortran is in town. Beneath Photran the IDE Code::Blocks is available. Since Photran is specialised for […]
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In my article “Backup your FreeNAS/NAS4Free shares automatically” I described how to set up automatic backups via RSYNC. To restore a entire backup of […]
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