Hi,

I'm using Gretl on Fedora and build the package myself (altough its now on Fedora repos, which is great). I'm attaching the procedure to build your own package and installing it.

First you have to install rpmbuild (as root: yum install rpmbuild)
Then, as root, copy the attached spec on /root/rpmbuild/SPECS (you have just update the version each time there is a new version, and also the number of the Fedora distribution)
Then download the source file from Gretl webpage (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gretl/gretl-1.9.8.tar.bz2)

Then, as root, run:  rpmbuild -bb /root/rpmbuild/SPECS/gretl.spec
Then (if everything is ok, which is my case): yum erase gretl
Then install the new version:
cd /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/i686
rpm -Uvh gretl-1.9.8-1.fc16.i686.rpm

and that's all.

Maybe you need to install additional packages, if you have errors.

Hope this help.

Regards,
Leandro


El 29 de marzo de 2012 21:09, Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu> escribió:
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Johannes Lips wrote:

> just pushed the updates to the fedora 16 and 17 repos after a flawless
> build. Don't know if it's worth noting on the gretl page that fedora
> provides packages for it.

Yes, definitely, I'll take care of that. It's great that Fedora
offers up-to-date gretl and that should be mentioned on our site.

> Those packages or src.rpms could probably be used on any rpm
> distro after a rebuild. Don't know how you build the rpm you are
> offering on the webpage.

I've installed an rpm build system on my own (non-distro) working
Linux laptop, but I have to admit I don't know how many systems will
actually be able to run the resulting binary rpm.

(I might mention that I've recently installed 64-bit Fedora 16 on my
home PC and I'm very pleased with it. No doubt I'll update to 17
soon.)

Allin Cottrell
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