On Mon, 21 Jan 2013, Clive Nicholas wrote: > On 21 January 2013 00:44, Skipper Seabold <jsseabold(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > You want to do ldconfig after installation. >> >> http://linux.die.net/man/8/ldconfig > > Thanks, but it's still the same result from Kickoff. If I type gretl at the > terminal, I get: > > The program 'gretl' is currently not installed. You can install it by > typing: > sudo apt-get install gretl
Is /usr/local/bin in your PATH? (Try "echo $PATH" to see.) > Also, note that on my system: > > clive(a)clivubu:~/Downloads/gretl-1.9.11$ ldconfig > /sbin/ldconfig.real: Can't create temporary cache file > /etc/ld.so.cache~: Permission denied Not surprising; that's why Sven suggested "sudo ldconfig". Possible problems here: 1) /usr/local bin is not in PATH 2) /usr/local/lib is not referenced by ldconfig (see ld.so.conf) 3) There's some mess-up between a previous installation of gretl via KDE and your new installation under /usr/local. This may be fixable by doing "rm -f ~/.gretl2rc". Assuming you succeeded in installing gretl into /usr/local/bin, you should be able to get a more informative error message by doing /usr/local/bin/gretl in a terminal window. Allin Cottrell
