[Gretl-users] installation problems

[Summers, Peter]

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
-----Original Message-----
From: gretl-users-bounces at lists.wfu.edu
[mailto:gretl-users-bounces at 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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