Scilab related

When you are displaying some variable repeatedly on the screen, there is a need to press a key to continue the display of variables
else the execution halts.
To remedy this add the following command at the beginning of the code.

lines(0);



Peace.

Ubuntu time format settings from terminal

 gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface clock-show-seconds true

this show seconds count too

Commands to run to get most latex packages

Install texlive from synaptic package manager
sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base

sudo apt-get install texlive-extra-utils 

sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra