Re: [Gretl-users] Gretl crashes under Ubuntu Natty 11.04
On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Allin Cottrell wrote:
On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Hugo Cohan wrote:
> I cannot launch Gretl after I automatically upgraded Ubuntu to
> Natty (11.04). I first blamed Unity, but problem persists
> launching Ubuntu Classic.
>
> message is cannot find .... /grtl2rc
>
> Apparently, a segmentation problem.
There was a bug in gretl 1.9.4 that (strangely) only seemed to be
triggered on Ubuntu. It's fixed in the current release, 1.9.5.
To install 1.9.5 on Ubuntu, you have 2 options: you can
(1) get the source from SourceForge
(http://sf.net/projects/gretl/files/gretl/1.9.5/gretl-1.9.5.tar.bz2/download)
and compile it yourself; instuctions on this can be found
in the gretl user's guide and on the archives of this list. Here's one of
the possible pointers:
http://lists.wfu.edu/pipermail/gretl-users/2011-February/005883.html
(2) get the deb files from Debian sid (they should be ok for Ubuntu
11.04, but I haven't checked first-hand): start from here
http://packages.debian.org/sid/gretl and follow the dependency chain or,
if you're familiar with apt, add debian sid to your repositories and use
the package management tool you like best.
HTH,
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti