Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version r11.3-489

Chapter 39. Office Programs

Gnumeric-1.12.55

Introduction to Gnumeric

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

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Package Information

Gnumeric Dependencies

Required

GOffice-0.10.55 and itstool-2.0.7

Recommended Runtime

an icon theme such as adwaita-icon-theme-44.0, oxygen-icons5-5.103.0, or gnome-icon-theme-3.12.0, a graphical environment, and Yelp-42.2 for the built-in help functionality

Optional

DConf-0.40.0 (to prevent some test failures), gobject-introspection-1.76.1, PyGObject-3.44.1, Valgrind-3.21.0 (for some tests), dblatex (for PDF docs), libgda, Mono, pxlib, and Psiconv

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

Installation of Gnumeric

Install Gnumeric by running the following commands: 

./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-0.40.0 should be installed to prevent some failures. Three tests are known to fail related to valgrind.

Command Explanations

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

Contents

Installed Programs: gnumeric (symlink), gnumeric-1.12.55, 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, and /usr/share/help/{C,cs,de,es}/gnumeric

Short Descriptions

gnumeric

is a symlink to gnumeric-1.12.55

gnumeric-1.12.55

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