Scilab 5.5 from OS13.1 repo not working?

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#1

Dear Opensuse Users: I would like to use the latest version of scilab from the opensuse science repo, but there is a java issue with the install. I thought YaST was supposed to take care of dependencies like this. Here is the command line output. How could this be trouble-shot?

Thank You,
Patti

~> scilab
/usr/bin/scilab-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libjava.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
~> scilab-cli
Scilab 5.5.0 (Aug  5 2014, 20:23:55)
 
-->exit 
~> whereis java
java: /usr/bin/java /usr/lib64/java /etc/java /usr/share/java /usr/share/man/man1/java.1.gz
~>
~> uname -a
Linux 3.11.10-21-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jul 21 15:28:46 UTC 2014 (9a9565d) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
~>
#2

What is your java version? Are you using it from the terminal only? If so, do you have java-1_7_0-openjdk-headless installed?

Could you copy paste the result of the following command here, if ran from a terminal;

SCIVERBOSE=1 scilab
#3

Note that full Java is not default installed you have to install it. If you upgraded then the upgrade may not have brought in the latest java (depending on how you upgraded) the rpm sees java thinks the requirement is installed and that is that.

#4

Hi Miku! Thanks for the suggestion…

~> SCIVERBOSE=1 scilab
SCILABBIN : scilab-bin
DISABLE_JAVA_DETECTION : 0
SCILAB_MODE : gui
OS : Linux
MODEL : x86_64
IS_SCILAB_BINARY : 0
Using specified vm: /usr/lib64/jvm/java
JAVA_HOME : /usr/lib64/jvm/java
Cannot find /usr/lib64/jvm/java/jre/lib/amd64/libjava.so
SCI : /usr/share/scilab/
SCIBIN : /usr/bin/scilab-bin
PATH : /usr/share/scilab/:/usr/share/scilab//bin:/usr/bin:/opt/aerosoft/bin:/opt/aerosoft/bin:/usr/lib64/mpi/gcc/openmpi/bin:/home/patti/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin
CLASSPATH : 
EGL_DRIVER : 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH : /usr/share/scilab//bin:/usr/share/scilab//lib/scilab/:/usr/share/scilab//lib64/scilab/:.:/usr/lib64/mpi/gcc/openmpi/lib64
DOCBOOK : /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/current/
/usr/bin/scilab-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libjava.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
~>
#5

You need to install java-1_7_0-openjdk-headless.

#6

Hi g - I checked that but was not sure how to interpret what I found… these come up when as installed when searching in YaST for “java” (and a** whole lot** of other stuff - some obvious, some less so… but this at least “looks like” java to me)

java-1_5_0-gcj-compat - JPackage Runtime Scripts for GCJ

| java-1_5_0-gcj-compat-devel - JPackage development scripts for GCJ
|
|

| java-1_7_0-openjdk - Java runtime environment based on OpenJDK 7 and IcedTea 7
|
|

java-1_7_0-openjdk-headless - JRE based on OpenJDK 7 and IcedTea 7 without X, audio and video support

Should I just install everything with a name like java-***** ?

Thank You Very Much!

#7

See my post to the other recent scilab thread.
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/493286-cannot-run-Scilab?p=2665806#post2665806

openjdk likely is insufficient, you need to install Oracle SE JDK.

TSU