[Gretl-users] Round the circle with Gretl on Linux

I had a disk failure on my main desktop which meant starting again with a new installation of Linux under a new hardware configuration. Neither Ubuntu nor OpenSUSE handle my hardware properly, so I am using Mandriva 2009 and have been trying to install gretl with the following results: A. The version of 1.7.5 in the Mandriva repository installs properly using the Install/Remove Software program. B. After un-installing this version (and deleting associated .gretl* files) I tried the rpm for version 1.8.0. The installation fails, complaining that it cannot find libblas.so.0 - though there is a symbolic link with this name in /usr/lib. C. Then, I tried compiling gretl-1.8.0 from source. This appears to complete without errors. However, the command "gretl" does not work and I cannot find the X11 version of the program, to which gretl should provide a symbolic link. The programs gretlcli.exe and gretl-config.exe exist and can be run from the terminal. Any suggestions? I can revert to version 1.7.5 but I need to use facilities introduced later versions in some of my functions. Gordon Hughes