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From: Paul Kibet <laboso@yahoo.com>
To: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
Sent: Monday, 29 October 2012, 13:13
Subject: Can gretl be made to use 'snapshot' & automatically update itself?

It seems to me like this might not be an easy task especially for the  non code-writing people like myself.Is there a way of getting gretl to link up with the 'snapshot' automatically whenever there is a new release and on my promting it to update?

Thanks for the information though

Paul

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From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
To: Paul Kibet <laboso@yahoo.com>; Gretl list <gretl-users@lists.wfu.edu>
Sent: Monday, 29 October 2012, 12:57
Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] Principal Components Analysis Misbehavior

On Mon, 29 Oct 2012, Paul Kibet wrote:

> I was wondering how i can update the gretl software that i installed on my laptop with the newer solutions that fixes the problems that people keep mentioning?Should i redownload  or the internet link that sits with the software automatically?

If you're on Windows, the best thing is to download the "snapshot" from time to time (between releases, that is), from
http://gretl.sourceforge.net/win32/ (and similarly for the Mac).

The usual caveat applies to snapshots: they may introduce new bugs. But most of the time the snapshot is an improvement over the previous release. And if there's anything particularly experimental/dodgy in the snapshot we try to issue a warning on the mailing list.

Allin Cottrell