Jack,

Thanks very much for your kind words on this. It was more than I was expecting! We should really be thanking Hélio Guilherme for the video, as it was his list I was working off and it was only right to namecheck him. I note he's yet to respond. :)

In response:

On 21 September 2015 at 08:11, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti <r.lucchetti@univpm.it> wrote:
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!

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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@univpm.it
  http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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