Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2013-05-19

Chapter 35. Office Programs

Gnumeric-1.12.2

Introduction to Gnumeric

The Gnumeric package contains a spreadsheet program which is useful for mathematical analysis.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.3 platform.

Package Information

Gnumeric Dependencies

Required

GOffice-0.10.2

Optional

dblatex (for PDF docs), gobject-introspection-1.34.2, Guile-2.0.9, libgda, Mono, pxlib, Psiconv and PyGObject-3.4.2

[Note]

Note

Though only a run-time dependency, if you don't install the Yelp-3.6.2 package, the built-in help functionality in Gnumeric will not be available.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gnumeric

Installation of Gnumeric

Install Gnumeric by running the following commands: 

sed -e "s@zz-application/zz-winassoc-xls;@@" -i gnumeric.desktop.in &&
./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package requires that it is installed before the test suite is run.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

To test the results, issue make check. All 13 tests should pass (many tests are skipped because the xls files don't exist).

Command Explanations

sed -e "s@zz-application/zz-winassoc-xls;@@" ...: This sed removes invalid mime type from the .desktop file.

--enable-pdfdocs: Use this switch if you have installed dblatex and wish to create PDF docs.

Contents

Installed Programs: gnumeric, gnumeric-1.12.2, ssconvert, ssgrep and ssindex
Installed Libraries: libspreadsheet.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/libspreadsheet-1.10, /usr/lib/gnumeric, /usr/lib/goffice/0.10/plugins/gnumeric, /usr/share/gnome/help/gnumeric, /usr/share/gnumeric and /usr/share/omf/gnumeric

Short Descriptions

gnumeric

is a symlink to gnumeric-1.12.2.

gnumeric-1.12.2

is GNOME's spreadsheet application.

ssconvert

is a command line utility to convert spreadsheet files between various spreadsheet file formats.

ssgrep

is a command line utility to search spreadsheets for strings.

ssindex

is a command line utility to generate index data for spreadsheet files.

Last updated on 2013-04-27 18:04:22 +0000