Re: [Gretl-users] Gretl v1.9.11 won't start
On 21 January 2013 01:28, Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu> wrote:
Also, note that on my system:
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> clive@clivubu:~/Downloads/gretl-1.9.11$ ldconfig
> /sbin/ldconfig.real: Can't create temporary cache file
> /etc/ld.so.cache~: Permission denied
Not surprising; that's why Sven suggested "sudo ldconfig".
I explained in the reply to Sven that I did try this and after that quote.
Possible problems here:
1) /usr/local bin is not in PATH
It is:
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clive@clivubu:~/Downloads/gretl-1.9.11$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
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2) /usr/local/lib is not referenced by ldconfig (see ld.so.conf)
From that directory, it would appear not:
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clive@clivubu:/usr/local/lib$ sudo ldconfig -f conf
[sudo] password for clive:
/sbin/ldconfig.real: Can't open configuration file conf: No such file or
directory
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3) There's some mess-up between a previous installation of gretl
via
KDE and your new installation under /usr/local. This may be fixable
by doing "rm -f ~/.gretl2rc".
I've passed over this, because...
Assuming you succeeded in installing gretl into /usr/local/bin, you
should be able to get a more informative error message by doing
/usr/local/bin/gretl
in a terminal window.
I get:
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clive@clivubu:~/Downloads/gretl-1.9.11$ /usr/local/bin/gretl
bash: /usr/local/bin/gretl: No such file or directory
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Bad news, then. But this is all after having reinstalled 1.9.11 from
scratch _after_ removing 1.9.6. via Muon. So I don't understand why this is
happening.
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