[Gretl-users] installation problems

[Allin Cottrell]

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