Re: about pspp for windows

[Alan Mead]

This seems to be the current Windows version of PSPP. It is probably perfectly safe and it installs and works correctly for me.

It installed 1.5.3-g8d023f which is bleeding edge new with all the latest features and possibly some bugs. I didn't test it much, but it pulled up an SPSS SAV file and ran some stats for me.

But if there's an existing version of PSPP, I recommend you delete or uninstall it before installing this because the installer can be really slow. I guess this is a known issue:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4332162/nsis-installer-slow-on-machine-with-microsoft-security-essentials
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1718275

Uninstalling PSPP fixed the issue for me. The first article says that turning off MSE will also fix it, but don't do that unless you know what that means and you are OK with doing so.

    -Alan

On 2/1/2022 3:26 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:

Someone else on the list will have to answer that.

On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 1:24 PM nora F <norafh300@gmail.com> wrote:

is there released version for windows? cause i just found this one that said for testing. 

On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 at 00:21 Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:

It means that there are likely to be more bugs than a released version, but I do not expect there to be risks to your computer.

On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 1:11 PM nora F <norafh300@gmail.com> wrote:

Dears,

when I want to install the pspp the below picture shows up:

What does it mean?

also here it says pspp testing

therefore it is not safe to install it?? 

thank you,

BR,

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