Dear Matthieu, The installation of gretl on Ubuntu (11.04, 11.10, 12.04) is performed using the package manager (synaptic) or even in the very center applications automatically. I use gretl at 12:04 "without problems. If need be posting some screenshots of the software installation. Regards. -- Arlindo Fabrício Corrêia Engenheiro Agrônomo - (45) 9974-3239 Instituto Água Viva de Pesquisa e Extensão - Toledo/PR Mestrando em Energia na Agricultura - Unioeste - Cascavel/PR - Brasil *s <http://twitter.com/afcorreiapr>kype: arlindofcorreia* _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users

On Tue, 9 Oct 2012, Matthieu Stigler wrote: Hi > > I am trying to compile gretl on Ubuntu 11.04, and get a problem, probably > a > stupid one... > > Even if installation (./configure without options, then make, then > checkinstall) is sucessfull, I then get while trying to launch gretl: > $ gretl > /usr/local/bin/gretl_x11: error while loading shared libraries: > libgretl-1.0.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or > directory > Try sudo ldconfig This should fix it once and for all. ------------------------------**-------------------- Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Economia Università Politecnica delle Marche (formerly known as Università di Ancona) r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www2.econ.univpm.it/**servizi/hpp/lucchetti<http://www2.econ.un... ------------------------------**-------------------- _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users

Thanks Ricardo for the answer! so should I run this $sudo ldconfig in any folder? I just tried and did not change it., see: $ sudo ldconfig [sudo] password: $ gretl /usr/local/bin/gretl_x11: error while loading shared libraries: libgretl-1.0.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory are you assuming with the ldconfig approach that the "libgretl-1.0.so.4" is somewhere, just badly linked? I could not even locate it on the folders... where is it supposed to be?

Hi Thanks to all of you for your kind help! So indeed, the libgretl is not produced in the /usr/local/bin, while I do not have a /usr/local/bin (although the machine itself is 64). I also did not use configure with a path prefix, so should be these files indeed... I hence tried the steps to create the make.log, that you can find under: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/6113358/make.log do you see there any issue? Thanks!! Matthieu 2012/10/9 Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt; > > On Tue, 9 Oct 2012, Matthieu Stigler wrote: > > > Thanks Ricardo for the answer! > > > > so should I run this $sudo ldconfig in any folder? I just tried and did > > not > > change it., see: > > $ sudo ldconfig > > [sudo] password: > > $ gretl > > /usr/local/bin/gretl_x11: error while loading shared libraries: > > libgretl-1.0.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or > > directory > > > > are you assuming with the ldconfig approach that the "libgretl-1.0.so.4" > > is > > somewhere, just badly linked? I could not even locate it on the > > folders... > > where is it supposed to be? > > The default result of ./configure is that gretl is installed > under /usr/local: the executables in /usr/local/bin and the > library in /usr/local/lib (or /usr/local/lib64 in case of a > 64-bit build). > > If there's no libgretl* in /usr/local/lib or /usr/local/lib64 > after "make install" then the build must have failed. In that > case, please do > > make clean > make > make.log 2>&1 > > and we can take a look at make.log to see what happened. > > If the library _did_ get installed OK but is not found by the > runtime linker, the standard fix is to run the command Jack > suggested, "sudo ldconfig". However, for this to work > /usr/local/lib (or /usr/local/lib64) must be among the > directories listed in ld.so.conf. Take a look at that file in > a text editor and if necessary, append the name of the > relevant directory (as root). For example, > > sudo echo "/usr/local/lib64" >> /etc/ld.so.conf > sudo ldconfig > > Allin Cottrell > _______________________________________________ > Gretl-users mailing list > Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu > http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users

On Tue, 9 Oct 2012, Matthieu Stigler wrote: Thanks to all of you for your kind help! So indeed, the libgretl is not > produced in the /usr/local/bin, while I do not have a /usr/local/bin > (although the machine itself is 64). > You're mixing up the directory names here, so it's a bit difficult to follow. I hence tried the steps to create the make.log, that you can find under: > https://dl.dropbox.com/u/**6113358/make.log<https://dl.dropbox.com/u/6... > > do you see there any issue? > As Hélio says, that looks OK; the library is apparently built. You could now try creating another log file: sudo make install > install.log 2>&1 and we can see where things are going (or not) on your system. Allin Cottrell _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users

Am 09.10.2012 17:45, schrieb Allin Cottrell: > > If the library _did_ get installed OK but is not found by the > runtime linker, the standard fix is to run the command Jack > suggested, "sudo ldconfig". Yes, and BTW it seems to have been necessary for me for the last couple of weeks/months, whereas in the "good old days" I never had to do a sudo ldconfig. I know this is a very vague statement, which is why I didn't report it, but could this be an indication of some problem, be it with gretl or with Ubuntu?