Re: [Gretl-users] Downloading, building and installing -gretl- 1.10.2 on Kubuntu Linux 15.04

On Mon, 21 Sep 2015, Clive Nicholas wrote: Hello! > > I've just uploaded a video which shows you all the steps of downloading, > building and installing the latest version of -gretl- on my YouTube page. > Watch it at: > > https://youtu.be/P58r2u4zFrc > > Warning: it's nearly 45 minutes long, but let me know what you think! :) > Thank you Clive, this is absolutely terrific, thanks a lot for putting this together, I's sure it'll be very helpful for lots of Linux users out there (and thanks for your kind words on the package) I have a list of small tweaks you may want to consider, but as I said your video is already very good as is now, so feel free to decide if you want to upload an updated version or not. * at least on my laptop, the audio was a bit crackling; perhaps you'll want to speak a little farther away from the mike * instead of copying-and-pasting the long URL from sourceforge, you can just "wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gretl/gretl-1.10.2.tar.xz";; wget should "get" the redirection and work straight away * a very desirable consequence of building your home-baked version of gretl is that you'll have it optimised for your machine. On modern PCs, for example, you may take advantage of multiple CPUS and have a few operations (such as matrix products or random-effects probit, for example) run faster. In order to enable this, you'll have to add the --enable-openmp option to ./configure * also, if you add the --enable-build-doc option and run "make pdfdocs" after "make", you'll also have updated versions of the pdf files, which can be handy * again, parallel is good; you can cut down build time dramatically by giving the "-j" option to make, as in, for example "make -j2", or "make -j4" * some users may worry about all those warnings during build; in most cases, they're totally harmless * a quicker way to perform a version check: just do "cli/gretlcli -v" instead of "gui2/gretl_x11", so you use the CLI client instead, which is much quicker * to get the CVS version, the way the video shows is the best one, but if you're feeling impatient you may also navigate to " http://gretl.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gretl/gretl/" and download the tarball. However, keep in mind that we'll probably be switching from CVS to git soon. * to see what's new, you may either go to "Help>About>News", or open http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ChangeLog.html. * it may be nice to remind that we have an active community who's willing to help and say something about the mailing lists. Thanks again for your nice work! ------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users