Advice installing PSPP on Ubuntu 20.04

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PSPP is an open source alternative to SPSS. Because of licensing issues it isn't in official Ubuntu repositories. I have found downloads available for Ubuntu 20.10 and 18.04 at https://pkgs.org/download/pspp but I run 20.04 and don't want to upgrade. Am I out of luck or is there a safe choice for me? (I can follow directions but am not really adept at Linux yet - just switched over.) Thx.

PSPP is available in the official Ubuntu repositories (universe) for all supported releases of Ubuntu EXCEPT 20.04 — user535733, Dec 13 '20 at 20:31

N0rbert · Accepted Answer · 2021-12-31T13:35:45.773

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You can install PSPP by using its package and dependencies from 20.10.

cd ~/Downloads
wget -c http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/gsl/libgsl25_2.6+dfsg-2_amd64.deb
wget -c http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/gsl/libgslcblas0_2.6+dfsg-2_amd64.deb
wget -c http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/s/spread-sheet-widget/libspread-sheet-widget_0.6-3_amd64.deb
wget -c http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pspp/pspp_1.4.0-3_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install ./libgsl25_2.6+dfsg-2_amd64.deb ./libgslcblas0_2.6+dfsg-2_amd64.deb ./libspread-sheet-widget_0.6-3_amd64.deb ./pspp_1.4.0-3_amd64.deb

And then launch it from menu or with psppire command.

edited Dec 31 '21 at 13:35

answered Dec 13 '20 at 20:13

N0rbert

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Thx NOrbert. Works like a charm. – user1157513 Dec 13 '20 at 21:02
Great! So you can accept my answer :) – N0rbert Dec 14 '20 at 07:12
Yes. I'm a newbie. Is there a box to check? – user1157513 Dec 14 '20 at 21:27
The checkmark is in the left side of the answer :) – N0rbert Dec 15 '20 at 06:18

Asha_Tir · Answer 2 · 2022-08-28T21:46:09.170

Only a couple of months ago the answer from N0rbert worked for me like a charm on my Linux Mint 20.2 system. However, libgsl25_2.6+dfsg-2_amd64.deb and libgslcblas0_2.6+dfsg-2_amd64.deb are no longer in the Universe archive. Fortunately, I found these packages over at the Debian archive and amended N0rbert's response as follows:

cd ~/Downloads
wget -c http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gsl/libgsl25_2.6+dfsg-2_amd64.deb
wget -c http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gsl/libgslcblas0_2.6+dfsg-2_amd64.deb
wget -c http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/s/spread-sheet-widget/libspread-sheet-widget_0.6-3_amd64.deb
wget -c http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pspp/pspp_1.4.0-3_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install ./libgsl25_2.6+dfsg-2_amd64.deb ./libgslcblas0_2.6+dfsg-2_amd64.deb ./libspread-sheet-widget_0.6-3_amd64.deb ./pspp_1.4.0-3_amd64.deb

Worked a treat for me.

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