I don't have any influence over the distributions. On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 1:59 PM Roy Powell <royjpow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ben > > Could somebody get Debian, Ubuntu and/or Mint to put PSPP back on their > repositories please? > I have tried to install the pspp tarball but it needs so many more > packages and I don't feel confident in installing them as well. > > Many thanks > > Roy > > On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 at 18:56, Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu> wrote: > >> Nope! >> >> PSPP is under active development. I'm currently working on the Custom >> Tables procedure. >> >> On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 10:54 AM Roy Powell <royjpow...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Friedrich >>> Many thanks for the update and the link. I wondered if SPSS had sued or >>> something like that! >>> >>> Kind regards >>> Roy >>> >>> On Wed, 9 Mar 2022, 17:43 Friedrich Beckmann, <friedrich.beckm...@gmx.de> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Roy, >>>> >>>> i guess this is related to a licensing problem which resulted in pspp >>>> being dropped in debian. During that time Ubuntu started a new distribution >>>> focal where pspp was then missing. I resolved the licensing issue so pspp >>>> is now back but not in Focal. >>>> >>>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-pspp/2020-05/msg00004.html >>>> >>>> I guess Linux Mint then copied from Ubuntu Focal and therefore it is >>>> also missing in Mint. >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> >>>> Fritz >>>> >>>> > Am 08.03.2022 um 15:59 schrieb Roy Powell <royjpow...@gmail.com>: >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > ---------- Forwarded message --------- >>>> > From: Roy Powell <royjpow...@gmail.com> >>>> > Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2022 at 11:36 >>>> > Subject: What's happened to PSPP? >>>> > To: <g...@gnu.org> >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > Hi >>>> > >>>> > I have been trying to download and install PSPP on Linux Mint but the >>>> response from the command 'apt-get install pspp' is that it is not >>>> available: >>>> > >>>> > Package pspp is not available, but is referred to by another package. >>>> > This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or >>>> > is only available from another source >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > Can anyone explain please? >>>> > >>>> > best wishes >>>> > >>>> > Roy Powell >>>> > >>>> >>>>
