Re: [Gretl-users] -gretli installation problems on Linux Mint

I've just migrated to Linux Mint 17.3 MATE 64-bit from Kubuntu 15.10 in the last few hours (please don't ask why) and have attempted to install -gretl- from git. Installing R and TeX was successful, but not -gretl-. Here's the output:

checking for gnuplot... no checking for gnuplot >= 4.6.0 with cairo support... no * gretl needs gnuplot >= 4.6.0, with cairo support. * The current version of gnuplot is available from www.gnuplot.info <http://www.gnuplot.info> clive@climate ~/gretl-git $ make -j3 make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. This ran beautifully (eventually) in Kubuntu 15, so why the choking on gnuplot? I've never before had to physically download it from online before firing up the commands to build, configure, make and install -gretl-, either via CVS or git.

I can't use -(sudo) apt-get build-dep gretl- before the call to -configure-, can I? I can't see any other solution. Thoughts?