Nick Thompson <[email protected]> writes: > It was pspp-0.4.0. This is what the synaptic thing from Ubuntu automatically > installed for me. But I couldn't get the GUI to work, so I downloaded > pspp-0.6.0 and installed that. It worked fine. I won't be able to tell you > what the other text was above the error message in pspp-0.4.0, because I > uninstalled it after getting pspp-0.6.0.
I'm glad that you eventually found a working installation of a recent version of PSPP. > One thing that may be of help for people who are trying to use this-but have > little CS knowledge-is to show them the 'sudo' command if they are running > Ubuntu. Once I knew about this, I could easily install the file by just > putting "sudo make install" into the terminal window. Before this was quite a > bit of frustration. Hmm. What does everyone think of the following patch? commit 8ea0f0027820d9895689eb50895cbdf24260ff4e Author: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> Date: Sun Feb 1 20:21:52 2009 -0800 INSTALL: Add hints about how to obtain root permission. Suggested by Nick Thompson <[email protected]>. diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index e687c55..dc673c4 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -152,8 +152,9 @@ release. 4. Type `make install' to install the programs and any data files and documentation. Ordinarily you will need root permissions to - do this; if you cannot get root permissions, see "Installation - Names", below. + do this. The "su" and "sudo" commands are common ways to obtain + root permissions. If you cannot get root permissions, see + "Installation Names", below. 5. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the source code directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the -- "MONO - Monochrome Emulation This field is used to store your favorite bit." --FreeVGA Attribute Controller Reference _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
