Installing SciDaVis on Ubuntu 20.04

SciDaVis is a free and open source application to visualize and analyze scientific data. This is kind of clone to the proprietary and commercial applications like Origin and Igor pro. This application can generate 2D and 3D plot and perform functions like curve fitting or Fourier transform.


Problem

The application is not available in the Ubuntu software center, so we can not directly install from Ubuntu repository.


Solution:

The latest version of the application is available on the GitHub, you can see it here. The easiest way to install the application is by using the prebuilt binary package. You can either download the deb file or install by adding the repo. I prefer the later because it will automatically update the application using the Ubuntu software update. The instruction can be found here. Go to the link, select Ubuntu and select Add Repository and Install Manually. Following are the command to install int in Ubuntu 20.04. 


sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/hpcoder1/xUbuntu_20.04/ /' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:hpcoder1.list"
wget -nv https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:hpcoder1/xUbuntu_20.04/Release.key -O Release.key
sudo apt-key add - < Release.key
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install scidavis

Cheers
A. Paul

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