scilab can't locate own shared objects

[Roman Bolshakov]

Binary package hint: scilab

If I try to run scilab-bin or scilab-bin-cli it yields: "error while loading shared libraries: libscishell.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory". But the file exists in /usr/lib/scilab.

I'm currently using Ubuntu lucid (development branch). Scilab package version is 5.2.1-8.

[Michael-baudin-e (michael-baudin-e)]

-- Bug description --

I was not able to launch the scilab-cli command.

-- Scilab error message --

/maison/scilab-branches-5.2-1259168787/bin/scilab-cli-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libscishell.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The library is there :

[maison]$ ls -lia lib/scilab/libscishell.so*
8274332 lrwxrwxrwx 1 maison 20 nov 26 15:57 lib/scilab/libscishell.so -> libscishell.so.5.0.2
8274438 lrwxrwxrwx 1 maison 20 nov 26 15:57 lib/scilab/libscishell.so.5 -> libscishell.so.5.0.2
8274231 -rwxr-xr-x 1 maison 39476 nov 26 07:25 lib/scilab/libscishell.so.5.0.2

-- How to reproduce the bug --

[maison]$ bin/scilab-cli

[Yann-collette (yann-collette)]

Works fine for me on scilab-master + mandriva 2010.0 64 bits.

YC

[Vincent-couvert-q (vincent-couvert-q)]

I think this bug is fixed now, Michael, please reopen it if needed.

[Scott Howard (showard314)]

confirmed, I'm going to post a PPA of a rebuild, hopefully that helps

[Scott Howard (showard314)]

Thanks for the report!

A rebuilt package is currently being built here:
https://launchpad.net/~showard314/+archive/ppa

When it is done, please test this package and let me know how it goes
(I will test too, but I might not be reply for a little while)

[Roman Bolshakov (roolebo)]

I've updated it but nothing is changed. Scilab doesn't start because of same error.

[Sylvestre Ledru (sylvestre)]

Could you confirm that /usr/bin/scilab contains
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/scilab/:/usr/lib64/scilab/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

applied by this patch:
http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/debian-science/packages/scilab/trunk/debian/patches/librarypath.diff

[Roman Bolshakov (roolebo)]

Thank you. It looks like my misunderstanding. I had installed scilab-full-bin instead of simply "scilab" package. So, I installed the one and the problem went away. Now it's working.

Sorry for the noise.

[Sylvestre Ledru (sylvestre)]

Thanks for the feedback. I should have a look on how to avoid such issue...

[Sylvestre Ledru (sylvestre)]

In fact, I don't want to spend too much time on this ... scilab & scilab-cli are the right packages.

[François Granade (francois-granade)]

(originally entered in version "5.2 GIT version [5.2 branch]")