I do most of my work in Windows XP but have always done some of it in Linux. My main system is a dual boot with Fedora 8 and Windows XP. Fedora 8 was my choice because it supported my wireless card (I have had to reverse Fedora kernel updates to keep my Wireless network working but that is another matter). I installed Gretl 1.7.1 from cvs following the steps in the manual and it installed and ran perfectly. The alternative rpm would not install - I think it was looking for an older version of one of the required libraries. I presumed that it was something wrong with my set up and when the alternative worked I did not examine the matter any more. I would now like to upgrade but have not been able to do so. I try cvs -update -d -P and get a lot of output telling me what is being updated. the output of ./configure --enable build-doc is in the attached file which produces something like the output on page 206 of the current manual. However when I try to run I get the following (logging on as root and repeating the entire sequence produces an identical result). [frainj@localhost ~]$ su Password: [root@localhost frainj]# cd cvs/gretl/ [root@localhost gretl]# make make -C lib make[1]: Entering directory `/home/frainj/cvs/gretl/lib' make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../lib/src/f2c.h', needed by `gmm.lo'. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/frainj/cvs/gretl/lib' make: *** [lib] Error 2 [root@localhost gretl]# [root@localhost gretl]# Am I missing something simple. I am using the same Fedora 8 as when I originally installed Gretl apart from the 'security' upgrades offered by Fedora. As far as I know I have not uninstalled any software. Please excuse my lack of knowledge of Linux. As far as I can make out I have installed all the dev packages mentioned on page 204 of the manual. Best Regards John Frain -- John C Frain Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2 Ireland www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html mailto:frainj@tcd.ie mailto:frainj@gmail.com