Gnumeric-1.12.46

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-9.1 platform.

Package Information

Gnumeric Dependencies

Required

GOffice-0.10.46, itstool-2.0.6, and Rarian-0.8.1

Recommended Runtime

Optional

DConf-0.34.0 (to prevent some test failures), gobject-introspection-1.62.0, PyGObject-3.34.0, Valgrind-3.15.0 (for some tests), dblatex (for PDF docs), libgda, Mono, pxlib, and Psiconv

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

Installation of Gnumeric

Install Gnumeric by running the following commands:

sed -i 's/HELP_LINGUAS = cs de es/HELP_LINGUAS = de es/' doc/Makefile.in &&
./configure --prefix=/usr  &&
make

This package must be installed before the test suite is run.

Now, as the root user:

make install

To run the tests, issue make check. Tests should be run from an active X session, and DConf-0.34.0 should be installed to prevent some failures. Two valgrind tests are known to fail.

Command Explanations

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

Contents

Installed Programs: gnumeric (symlink), gnumeric-1.12.46, ssconvert, ssdiff, ssgrep, and ssindex
Installed Libraries: libspreadsheet.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/libspreadsheet-1.12, /usr/lib/gnumeric, /usr/lib/goffice/0.10/plugins/gnumeric, /usr/share/gnumeric, /usr/share/help/{C,cs,de,es}/gnumeric, and /usr/share/pixmaps/gnumeric

Short Descriptions

gnumeric

is a symlink to gnumeric-1.12.46.

gnumeric-1.12.46

is GNOME's spreadsheet application.

ssconvert

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

ssdiff

is a command line utility to compare two spreadsheets.

ssgrep

is a command line utility to search spreadsheets for strings.

ssindex

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

libspreadsheet.so

contains the gnumeric API functions.

Last updated on 2020-02-18 13:55:17 -0800