Re: [Gretl-users] Gretl request

Am 18.02.2008 17:44, Daniel Arribas schrieb: Of course the shipped ubuntu gretl package works fine, but you probably wanted a newer version, right? The newer packages from upcoming Ubuntu 8.04 didn't work for me either. So for Ubuntu 7.10 no current gretl binary is available AFAIK. Trying to install it from source code stops when As Allin said, you should uninstall the binary gretl package (with synaptic). Then the steps are (you may know this, but maybe it's interesting for others who are not used to cvs): 0. install a bunch of devel packages with synaptic, like gnome-devel, gcc, and many others... check out the gretl homepage and proceed on a trial-and-error basis until somebody posts a list here 1. create a directory "gretlcvs" (or whatever you want to call it) where you have write access (presumably in your home dir) 2. in a terminal from within gretlcvs, type: cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@gretl.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gretl login 3. you get a password prompt, simply hit return 4. then type: cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@gretl.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gretl co -P gretl (without line breaks that may be introduced by the mail program here) 5. after the source has been downloaded from cvs, change to the new gretl dir (cd gretl) 6.a) type make clean (for the second and subsequent iterations) 6.b) type ./configure --without-gnome or ./configure --without-gnome --enable-build-doc or ./configure or ./configure --enable-build-doc depending on your tastes (I guess that for --enable-build-doc you also need a (La)TeX system installed) 7. type make (then wait) 8. type sudo make install (this is not very clean because uninstalling the compiled gretl version will be a bit difficult, but when do you really want to uninstall gretl? ;-) -- and updating to newer versions has always worked for me so far, though I cannot guarantee anything. The alternative could be do use checkinstall.) good luck, sven