[Gretl-users] Install GRETL on iMac

Fri Oct 6 15:38:59 EDT 2006

On Fri, October 6, 2006 20:43, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>> The file, gretl_X11, is in this folder.
>>
>> By the way, X11 is not in my Applications/Utilities folder. Do I need
>> to install it?
>
> Yes, gretl will not run without it
>
> http://gretl.sourceforge.net/osx.html
>
> It's on the Tiger installation DVD, though I guess it's not
> installed by default.

A student here has a mac which showed the same symptoms. Turned out he didn't
have X11 installed, either; I guess a standard installation of OSX doesn't
include X11. After installing X11, gretl runs, but not via the "gretl" file in
the main gretl folder. That just hangs; it doesn't crash, it just stays there
doing nothing visible and has to be killed by hand. OTOH, opening a shell
("Terminal" in OSX parlance) and running the "gretl.sh" script from the bin
directory, as per your previous attempt, works ok.

Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Facoltà di Economia "G. Fuà"
Ancona