Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2015-03-06-multilib

Chapter 36. Office Programs

Gnumeric-1.12.20

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-7.7 platform.

Package Information

Gnumeric Dependencies

Required

GOffice-0.10.20 and Rarian-0.8.1

Recommended Runtime

an icon theme such as adwaita-icon-theme-3.14.1, oxygen-icons-14.12.2 or gnome-icon-theme-3.12.0, X Window System, and Yelp-3.14.1 for the buit-in help functionality

Optional

DConf-0.22.0 (to prevent some test failures), gobject-introspection-1.42.0, PyGObject-3.14.0, Valgrind-3.10.1 (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 -e "s@zz-application/zz-winassoc-xls;@@" -i gnumeric.desktop.in &&
./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package requires to be installed before the test suite is run.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

If you wish to test the results, issue make -k check. Tests must be run from an active X session, and DConf-0.22.0 should be installed to prevent some failures. Even so, a few tests fail, some for known reasons.

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 (symlink), gnumeric-1.12.20, ssconvert, ssdiff, ssgrep and ssindex
Installed Libraries: libspreadsheet-1.12.20.so, libspreadsheet.so, several plugins under /usr/lib/gnumeric/1.12.20/plugins/, and /usr/lib/goffice/0.10/plugins/gnumeric/gnumeric.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/libspreadsheet-1.12, /usr/lib/gnumeric, /usr/lib/goffice/0.10/plugins/gnumeric, /usr/share/gnome/help/gnumeric, /usr/share/gnumeric, /usr/share/omf/gnumeric and /usr/share/pixmaps/gnumeric

Short Descriptions

gnumeric

is a symlink to gnumeric-1.12.20.

gnumeric-1.12.20

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.

Last updated on 2015-03-02 22:42:44 -0500