Re: [Gretl-users] mac installation problem
On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, Summers, Peter wrote:
I have a student who's having trouble installing gretl on her
MacBook Pro, running Mountain Lion. After she'd followed the steps
on the gretl site, I had her uninstall & reinstall gretl as per
the recent thread on this topic. Gretl shows up in her
applications, but it looks like only the cli version is working.
In itself, that would argue that XQuartz is not installed.
I had a brief look at her directory structure and couldn't find
anything relating to the gui version.
/Applications/Gretl.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gretl_x11
She's tried the ./gretl command from the terminal window but
nothing happened.
That's actually very hard to believe. No error message, no nothing?
Mountain Lion seems to have a weird bug whereby, when you install
gretl in the usual way by dragging from the disk image to
/Applications, some (library) files end up truncated to zero bytes.
The fix -- it seems -- is to ensure that /Applications/Gretl.app is
deleted, then copy Gretl.app into place manually via the command
line.
sudo rm -rf /Applications/Gretl.app
sudo cp -r /Volumes/gretl/Gretl.app /Applications
Allin Cottrell