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

*Jack,Oops! As I say, in response:* * at least on my laptop, the audio was a bit crackling; perhaps you'll want to speak a little farther away from the mike *The audio could have been considerably de-burred, I must admit. The sound cut-outs weren't great, either. I use an internal mike from one port and I'm still experimenting with Vokoscreen, so I shall do some more tinkering when making future videos.* * 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 *All three of these are excellent tips which I'd no idea of (no doubt, you'll tell me I should have RTFM more closely). Thanks!* * 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" *Which -make -j*- option would you recommend?* * 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. *Again, thanks for these excellent tips. Will you please tell us Linux users know exactly how we should get Git updates from our terminals when you announce it?** to see what's new, you may either go to "Help>About>News", or open http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ChangeLog.html. *Like an idiot, I realised straight away I should have said this on review of the video.* * it may be nice to remind that we have an active community who's willing to help and say something about the mailing lists. *Agreed.* Thanks again for your nice work! *No problem, you're welcome. Now here's a tip for you: why not incorporate all of these steps into the next version of the User Guide? That way, all newcomers have a clear point-by-point 'guide within a guide' to work with. :)* *Yours,* *Clive Nicholas*