Please note that Scilab 5.2.0 Beta version still contains some well known bugs.
It is a testing only version, it should only be used to test what will be
Scilab 5.2 family and not at all in production environment.
The period between the beta and stable versions will mainly be used to debug
and optimize Scilab.
Reporting Bugs
It should come as no surprise that this beta release of scilab-5.2.0 contains
other bugs. Your comments, bug reports, patches and suggestions will help fix
bugs and improve future releases. Please report bugs through the
Scilab bug tracker.
1. Get the binary file (scilab-5.2.0-beta-1.bin.linux-i686.tar.gz)
and put it in the directory where you want to install Scilab (<scilab-path>)
[$SHELL] wget http://www.scilab.org/download/5.2.0-beta-1/scilab-5.2.0-beta-1.bin.linux-i686.tar.gz
2. Launch the following commands :
[$SHELL] cd <scilab-path>
[$SHELL] tar xzf scilab-5.2.0-beta-1.bin.linux-i686.tar.gz
[$SHELL] cd scilab-5.2.0-beta-1
3. To launch Scilab :
[$SHELL] cd <scilab-path>/scilab-5.2.0-beta-1
[$SHELL] bin/scilab