5:36 p.m.
Dear all,
I use gretl in my introductory econometrics class, and one of my
students is experiencing a strange (imho) problem installing it on her
computer. In the course of trying to help her out I've discovered that
there seems to be something wrong with the gretl-1.6.5.exe file on the
windows page. After saving this file to disk, it turns out to only be
about 21kB instead of 9MB. Trying to run it gives the error message "The
NTVDM CPI has encountered an illegal instruction. CS:0551 IP:02bd OP:63
6f 6e 74 65"
OK, so on to the current snapshot. This installs fine on my machine, but
she gets an error saying "Error creating INI entry in file
"c:\windows\wgnuplot.ini". This sounds like a registry issue (maybe?) -
at any rate it falls within my range of ignorance.
Unfortunately I don't know what type of machine (other than windows)
she's using - I'll try to find out.
Has anyone out there encountered anything similar?
TIA!
PS
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Dr. Peter Summers
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics & Geography
Texas Tech University
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4:48 p.m.
Summers, Peter schrieb:
there seems to be something wrong with the gretl-1.6.5.exe file on
the
windows page. After saving this file to disk, it turns out to only be
about 21kB instead of 9MB.
You actually only downloaded the sourceforge download (html) page I
guess. I bet you did a right-click and save-target-as download, right?
Try a normal click and see what follows, or alternatively navigate
through the sourceforge download pages.
HTH,
sven
5:53 p.m.
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Summers, Peter wrote:
I use gretl in my introductory econometrics class, and one of my
students is experiencing a strange (imho) problem installing it on her
computer. In the course of trying to help her out I've discovered that
there seems to be something wrong with the gretl-1.6.5.exe file on the
windows page. After saving this file to disk, it turns out to only be
about 21kB instead of 9MB.
You mean, the link labeled "gretl-1.6.5.exe" on
http://gretl.sourceforge.net/win32/ ?
That links to the sourceforge download system. I just tried it
and got the full 9MB exe file. Note that with these sourceforge
auto-links you can't right-click and "Save as" (you'll just get
the HTML for the download page, which is apparently what your
student got). Just left-click and the download mechanism will
kick in.
OK, so on to the current snapshot. This installs fine on my
machine, but she gets an error saying "Error creating INI entry
in file "c:\windows\wgnuplot.ini". This sounds like a registry
issue (maybe?) - at any rate it falls within my range of
ignorance.
She can't actually be trying the current snapshot: we got rid of
wgnuplot.ini some time back (it was creating a permissions
problem, but was also redundant). If she uses the actual
snapshot she shouldn't have that issue:
http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/gretl_install.exe
Allin Cottrell
6:05 p.m.
Allin & Sven,
Thanks for your prompt responses!
You're right, I was right-clicking on the .exe file & saving that.
Downloading through SourceForge works ok.
But -- it is in fact the current snapshot. Yesterday I saved a copy of
that (http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/gretl_install.exe) to her
flash drive. It was after that that she sent me an email with the .ini
error. I'll check with her to make sure that's what's going on (and find
out details of her system!). Again, everything's fine on my desktop
(just re-installed the latest snapshot).
PS
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[mailto:gretl-users-bounces@lists.wfu.edu] On Behalf Of Allin Cottrell
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 12:53 PM
To: Gretl list
Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] installation problems
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Summers, Peter wrote:
I use gretl in my introductory econometrics class, and one of my
students is experiencing a strange (imho) problem installing it on her
computer. In the course of trying to help her out I've discovered that
there seems to be something wrong with the gretl-1.6.5.exe file on the
windows page. After saving this file to disk, it turns out to only be
about 21kB instead of 9MB.
You mean, the link labeled "gretl-1.6.5.exe" on
http://gretl.sourceforge.net/win32/ ?
That links to the sourceforge download system. I just tried it
and got the full 9MB exe file. Note that with these sourceforge
auto-links you can't right-click and "Save as" (you'll just get
the HTML for the download page, which is apparently what your
student got). Just left-click and the download mechanism will
kick in.
OK, so on to the current snapshot. This installs fine on my
machine, but she gets an error saying "Error creating INI entry
in file "c:\windows\wgnuplot.ini". This sounds like a registry
issue (maybe?) - at any rate it falls within my range of
ignorance.
She can't actually be trying the current snapshot: we got rid of
wgnuplot.ini some time back (it was creating a permissions
problem, but was also redundant). If she uses the actual
snapshot she shouldn't have that issue:
http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/gretl_install.exe
Allin Cottrell
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