I'd just thought I'd broadcast to the list Hélio Guilherme's excellent step-by-step solution to building and installing the latest version of -gretl- on an openSUSE Linux to system which I only just found via Google this afternoon:

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# Hélio Guilherme, 10/Apr/2014
# Step by Step on how to build official gretl package in OpenSuSE 13.1 x64

# This symbol (#) means a comment line
# we will use Gnome Terminal (bash) and the commands are shown after prompt $
# You will need the root password when requested

# 1 - Open a Gnome Terminal or xterm (search with Terminal)
# You will see a shell prompt (username <at> machine_name:~>) in my case is
# helio <at> linux-techno:~>  The part ~ changes to the current path and ~ means the home path, in my case is /home/helio/
# In this tutorial we represent $ as the prompt
#

# 2 - Download gretl's source code (latest official build is 1.9.92)
# From the http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ pages find the correct link
$ wget -O gretl-1.9.92.tar.xz http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/gretl/gretl/1.9.92/gretl-1.9.92.tar.xz?r=http%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fgretl%2Ffiles%2Fgretl%2F1.9.92%2F&ts=1397139707&use_mirror=softlayer-ams

# 3 - Extract the files from the package (around 7MB) (if you press the Tab key after typing gr it will complete
file or directory name)
$ tar xf gretl-1.9.92.tar.xz

# 4 - The gretl-1.9.14 directory is created (in GUI is a Folder)
# Change into that directory
$ cd gretl-1.9.92

# 5 - The file README.packages should contain instructions on how to build in different Linux Distributions.
# Unfortunately for OpenSuSE 13.1 and gretl 1.9.92, this file is not updated. You can see the content of the
file with:
$ more README.packages

# 6 - Installing dependencies (even if they are already installed). It may ask to install other required applications.
# You will be asked to enter the root password and to confirm the download and install
$ sudo zypper install gcc make

$ sudo zypper install  gmp-devel mpfr-devel fftw3-devel lapack-devel gnuplot libxml2-devel curl-devel readline-devel
gtk3-devel gtksourceview-devel

# 7 - From this point we will configure, build and install gretl.
# We are going to make a system wide install for all users (a local install, in user home is not considered in
this document).
# The configure script will check if all required software is available, and prepare the build files. You
can add the option --help to see the diverse options it use. We will reduce the output text when building
gretl, with --enable-quiet-build.
$ ./configure --enable-quiet-build

# 8 - Assuming that there were no missing dependencies, you will see a report ending with "Now type 'make' to
build gretl."
# You will build gretl then:
$ make

# 9a - When the compilation (building) ends you can try to run gretl before installing:
$ gui2/gretl_x11

# 9b - Then you may install gretl globally (again needing root password):
$ sudo make install

# 10 - In OpenSuSE we must issue ldconfig before using gretl.
$ sudo /sbin/ldconfig

# 11 You can now start gretl from GUI (in one of Applications, Science, Education or Econometrics) or
Terminal with:
$ gretl &
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