Re: [Gretl-users] Gretl v1.9.11 won't start

On 21 January 2013 00:44, Skipper Seabold <jsseabold(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: You want to do ldconfig after installation. Thanks, but it's still the same result from Kickoff. If I type gretl at the terminal, I get: ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- The program 'gretl' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install gretl ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- Also, note that on my system: ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- clive@clivubu:~/Downloads/gretl-1.9.11$ ldconfig /sbin/ldconfig.real: Can't create temporary cache file /etc/ld.so.cache~: Permission denied ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- and only -sudo ldconfig- runs without complaint. But still no -gretl-. :( -- Clive Nicholas (clivenicholas.posterous.com) [Please DO NOT mail me personally here, but at <clivenicholas(a)hotmail.com&gt;. Please respond to contributions I make in a list thread here. Thanks!] "My colleagues in the social sciences talk a great deal about methodology. I prefer to call it style." -- Freeman J. Dyson