Re: [Gretl-users] Round the circle with Gretl on Linux
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Gordon Hughes wrote:
Neither Ubuntu nor OpenSUSE handle my hardware properly, so I am
using Mandriva 2009 and have been trying to install gretl with
the following results:
A. The version of 1.7.5 in the Mandriva repository installs properly
using the Install/Remove Software program.
OK.
B. After un-installing this version (and deleting associated
.gretl*
files) I tried the rpm for version 1.8.0. The installation fails,
complaining that it cannot find libblas.so.0 - though there is a
symbolic link with this name in /usr/lib.
Did you try the --nodeps option to rpm?
C. Then, I tried compiling gretl-1.8.0 from source. This
appears to complete without errors. However, the command
"gretl" does not work and I cannot find the X11 version of the
program, to which gretl should provide a symbolic link. The
programs gretlcli.exe and gretl-config.exe exist and can be run
from the terminal.
I have no idea what's going on here. A correct build should not
generate any files with an ".exe" suffix on Linux; that's a
Windows-only thing. How are you compiling the program?
Allin Cottrell