Scilab doesn't work at all on my macbook.

[ainhoaaparicio]

Hi!

I have installed scilab-5.1.1-alpha on my MacOS Leopard...and when I
click on the puffin nothing happens.
Can anyone tell me what might be happening?

Cheers!

[fake...@invalid.domain]

In article <31f7c627-9a7c-4129...@r5g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,

Likely you have a PPC processor machine, the version you downloaded
is for Intel processors. There are older versions of scilab which
work on PPC machines.
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Department of Mathematics office: 223 Love
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[Guillaume Dutilleux]

Hello,

You don't say anything about the hardware type of your macbook. The
installer should detect that the binary is for Intel hardware only,
not PPC (by the way it's really too bad). So the problem is certainly
elsewhere.

In /Application/Utilities/ there is an application named Console.app.
What happens in Console.app when you start it before trying to start
scilab-5.1.1 ? Any more explicit error message in the console ?

Otherwise, you can try to start scilab from the command line in /
Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app if you are familiar with it. In
Finder.app you need to locate the scilab binary : ctrl-click on /
Applications/Scilab.app and choose "display the content of the
package" or something like that, since my interface is in french.
Change to this directory, and just type ./scilab or update $PATH and
type scilab anywhere in the file system. Messages should appear in the
Terminal at launch time.

Hope this helps,

G. Dutilleux

[徐盛]

Why don't you try the stable version?

It's released long time ago.