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The program for statistical analysis PSPP is very important for research, i concluded my post-graduation with it, using Ubuntu 19.10, but it's not present in the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS repository, so we can install it easily. Why?

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  • It was built for focal, but *Removal requested on 2019-10-27*; but I cannot see why sorry. – guiverc May 02 '20 at 00:15
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    A workaround is download the deb package of your architecture from the eoan release: https://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/core/eoan/universe/base/pspp and then install it with dpkg or directly with the gnome-software or the ubuntu-software if you have it installed. – lestcape May 14 '20 at 06:43
  • @lestcape Thanks for that idea. Solved my problem. – John Jul 27 '20 at 04:37

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The PSPP package was dropped from Debian, and thence from Ubuntu, due to a licensing problem.

See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=924937

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I was able to install an earlier version, pspp-1.2.0 by compiling from source code at http://ftp.wayne.edu/gnu/pspp/. You'll probably have to install several dependencies which ./configure should tell you. Be sure to use three separate steps when compiling, e.g. sudo ./configure, sudo make, and sudo make install, to ensure files are correctly written. The latest version seems to have at least one dependency issue.

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  • Would you consider expanding on this answer to give more details about the process? It would be most helpful if you'd give us a step-by-step. What exactly were the obstacles that you faced, and how exactly did you solve them? – Nmath Nov 13 '20 at 21:26
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I do not know if it can help, but I solved the problem in my Ubuntu 20.04 by adding this line in my sources.list:

deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy main universe

Here some other repository: https://packages.ubuntu.com/groovy/amd64/pspp/download

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    This will make apt want to upgrade about half of your packages to the versions from 20.10, resulting in a frankensystem with unknown problems. – Marius Gedminas Oct 24 '20 at 12:32