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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>sir i am trying to package a debian from a tar ball of scilab (binary) . <br>i created a folder placed every thing in right place.<br>and packaged it using command dpkg -b <source > <destination><br>it was packaged correctly without any warning messages or error. when i installed it using dpkg -i <filename.deb> it was installed correctly.<br>when i typed command scilab, it showed that scilab pacage not installed, you can install it using sudo apt-get scilab.<br>when i accessed it using /usr/bin/scilab it run correctly.<br><br>i need to put the links in bin diectry..<br><br>my script file under etc/profile.d/ is<br><br>#!/bin/bash<br>SCILAB_PATH=/usr/scilab-5.4.1/bin<br>if [ -z "$PATH" ]<br>then<br> export PATH=${SCILAB_PATH}<br># check if $SCILAB_PATH is already in $PATH<br>elif echo $PATH | awk -F: -v j=$SCILAB_PATH '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){if($i == j){exit 1}}}'<br>then<br> export PATH=${PATH}:${SCILAB_PATH}<br>fi<br><br>sudo ln -s /usr/scilab-5.4.1/bin/scilab /usr/bin/scilab<br>sudo ln -s /usr/scilab-5.4.1/bin/scilab-adv-cli /usr/bin/scilab-adv-cli<br>sudo ln -s /usr/scilab-5.4.1/bin/scilab-cli /usr/bin/scilab-cli<br>sudo ln -s /usr/scilab-5.4.1/bin/scinotes /usr/bin/scinotes<br>sudo ln -s /usr/scilab-5.4.1/bin/xcos /usr/bin/xcos<br><br>sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/scilab" "scilab" "/usr/scilab-5.4.1/bin/scilab" 1<br><br>sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/scilab-cli" "scilab-cli" "/usr/scilab-5.4.1/bin/scilab-cli" 1<br><br><br>sudo update-alternatives --set scilab /usr/scilab-5.4.1/bin/scilab<br>sudo update-alternatives --set scilab-cli /usr/scilab-5.4.1/bin/scilab-cli<br><br>sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/scilab-adv-cli" "scilab-adv-cli" "/usr/scilab-5.4.1/bin/scilab-adv-cli" 1<br><br>sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/xcos" "xcos" "/usr/scilab-5.4.1/bin/xcos" 1<br><br><br>sudo update-alternatives --set xcos /usr/scilab-5.4.1/bin/xcos<br>sudo update-alternatives --set scilab-adv-cli /usr/scilab-5.4.1/bin/scilab-adv-cli<br><br><br>sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/scinotes" "scinotes" "/usr/scilab-5.4.1/bin/scinotes" 1<br><br>sudo update-alternatives --set scinotes /usr/scilab-5.4.1/bin/scinotes<br><br><br> </div></body>
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