Re: [Gretl-users] Downloading, building and installing -gretl- 1.10.2 on Kubuntu Linux 15.04
On Tue, 22 Sep 2015, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 22.09.2015 um 00:20 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti:
> On Mon, 21 Sep 2015, Clive Nicholas wrote:
>
>
>> *No problem, you're welcome. Now here's a tip for you: why not
>> incorporate
>> all of these steps into the next version of the User Guide? That way, all
>> newcomers have a clear point-by-point 'guide within a guide' to work
>> with.
>> :)*
>
> Myself, I'd rather not. This kind of information, IMO, is much too
> "volatile" (at least, at this level of detail) to be set in stone in the
> User's Guide; little things may change from one version to another. And
> besides, who needs the User's Guide to buld gretl on Linux when there's
> an excellent step-by-step tutorial on YouTube already? ;)
>
I might be missing something, but isn't Appendix C exactly such a
step-by-step guide?
Clive's video (which is in fact a video version of Hélio's checklist) is
more detailed than that and covers a few things the manual takes as
given (such as eg differences between various distros) etc.
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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