I did pretty much what Jack did. x13as works just fine running testairline.spc in the

install dir. And I did get plot output in Gretl. In Gretl, I highlighted a series and with gui
selected x12arima-analysis under variable tab. Just clicked ok to the next menu. Graphical

output was produced and a text widget but no text. I did try the download from Gretl page
for x12arima but I must be having trouble with 32/64 bit binaries: "no such file"

x13as substitute was working fine under Mint 14.

Bob

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti <r.lucchetti@univpm.it> wrote:

On Tue, 4 Feb 2014, Allin Cottrell wrote:

First question, where did you get x13as, and what's the exact
version? I'm running X-13ARIMA-SEATS Version 1.1 Build 9 (self
compiled from the sources at
http://www.census.gov/srd/www/x13as/x13down_unix.html )
and I'm getting text output OK.

Just in case someone is interested, this is a quick HOWTO on building X13ARIMA-SEATS on Linux: I just did on my Mint laptop. It should work ok on any debian-based distro (Ubuntu, for one).

1) Download the source from

http://www.census.gov/ts/x13as/unix/x13assrc.tar.gz

and unpack in a directory of your choice

2) Install gfortran, if necessary:

sudo apt-get install gfortran

or via synaptic, aptitude, whatever you like best

3) move to the directory containing the fortran sources and edit the file "makefile.g77": change lines 2 and 3

FC = /usr/bin/g77
LINKER = /usr/bin/g77

to

FC = /usr/bin/gfortran
LINKER = /usr/bin/gfortran

4) run "make -f makefile.g77"; this will take some time and produce a few "warning" messages; it's perfectly safe to ignore them. At the end, you should have an executable file called "x13as".

5) copy the executable file to a directory in your path; eg,

sudo cp x13as /usr/local/bin/

6) Open gretl, go to Tools>Preferences>General; in the "Programs" tab, choose "Path to x12arima" and write "x13as" in the text box. Click "OK".

7) Enjoy!!!

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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)

Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)

r.lucchetti@univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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