Troubleshooting<\/h1>\n

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Empty graphic window on Scilab 6.1.1 or 2023.0.0 in Linux Mint 21.1<\/p><\/div>\n

If Scilab does not plot and the graphics window remains empty<\/strong>, it helps in most cases to call Scilab in the terminal or program starter as follows:<\/p>\n

MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.0 scilab<\/pre>\nFor this you can:<\/p>\n\nChange the 5th line of the file scilab.desktop<\/span> (see above) from\nExec=scilab -f<\/pre>\nto<\/p>\nExec=MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.0 scilab -f<\/pre>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Note: If you want to call Scilab and its CLI versions from the command line you have to follow the 2nd approch below.<\/em>
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\u00a0<\/p><\/li>\nCreate another script, then you don\u2019t need to change the scilab.desktop<\/span> file, because it will be called automatically.\n\nIf necessary delete old scripts links, if you had already created them above. In the terminal:\nsudo rm \/usr\/local\/bin\/scilab\r\nsudo rm \/usr\/local\/bin\/scilab-adv-cli<\/pre>\nscilab-cli<\/span> is not affected.<\/p><\/li>\n
Create new scripts:\nsudo nano\u00a0 \/usr\/local\/bin\/scilab<\/pre>\n<\/li>\nWrite or copy the following content into it:\n#!\/bin\/bash\r\nMESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.0 \/opt\/scilab-6.1.1\/bin\/scilab<\/pre>\nPress CTRL-O to save and CTRL-X to quit.<\/p><\/li>\n
Make the script executable:\nsudo chmod +x \/usr\/local\/bin\/scilab<\/pre>\n<\/li>\nDo the same for scilab-adv-cli<\/span>:\nsudo nano\u00a0 \/usr\/local\/bin\/scilab-adv-cli<\/pre>\nfill in:<\/p>\n
#!\/bin\/bash\r\nMESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.0 \/opt\/scilab-6.1.1\/bin\/scilab-adv-cli<\/pre>\nPress CTRL-O to save and CTRL-X to quit, then make it executable with:<\/p>\n
sudo chmod +x \/usr\/local\/bin\/scilab-adv-cli<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nThanks to Makerten and his comment<\/a>. More information can be found about the problem at ResearchGate<\/a>.<\/p><\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25,6,45,127,155,8],"tags":[95,103,220,156,104],"class_list":["post-5070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-german","category-english","category-gnu-linux","category-how-tos","category-linux-mint","category-scilab","category-ubuntu","tag-featured","tag-gnu-linux","tag-installation","tag-scilab","tag-ubuntu"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5070"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5181,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070\/revisions\/5181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hani-ibrahim.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

Installation<\/h2>\nWe want to install Scilab system-wide for all users of the machine. We will store the program files in \/opt<\/code> and\u00a0 install the start files in the local<\/code>-tree in \/usr<\/code>.<\/p>\n

Troubleshooting<\/h1>\n