Re: gnumeric

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Jim McCloskey <mcclosk@ling.ucsc.edu> wrote:
>I have a stable (2.2r3) system and this is the wrong time for me to
>think of upgrading to testing. It would be very useful, though, to
>have a more up-to-date version of gnumeric than the one available in
>stable (stable has 0.47; testing has 0.64).
>
>I don't use the whole gnome beast, but I do use two parts of
>it---gnumeric and panel, so I have (at least) as much of the gnome
>setup as is required to run them.
>
>I thought to try to compile the version of gnumeric that's in testing
>and tried:
>
>  apt-get --compile source gnumeric
>
>(after adding the needed line to sources.list and updating).
>
>The configuration script, however, exits early on with this message:
>
>configure: error: Could not find the gnomeConf.sh file that is generated
>by gnome-libs install

You certainly have whatever's required to run gnumeric, but that's not
the same as what's required to compile it. Try this (lines wrapped for
clarity):

  [cjw44@riva ~]$ apt-cache showsrc gnumeric
  Package: gnumeric
  Binary: gnumeric
  Version: 0.64-1.1
  Priority: optional
  Section: math
  Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@debian.org>
  Build-Depends: libgnome-dev (>= 1.2.12-1), libxml-dev (>= 1.8.11-1),
   libglade-gnome0-dev (>= 0.16-2), libgal-dev (>= 0.7-2),
   libole2-dev (>= 0.1.7-0.1), python-dev, cygnus-stylesheets, gettext,
   autoconf, debhelper (>= 3.0)
  Architecture: any
  Standards-Version: 2.4.0.0
  Format: 1.0
  Directory: pool/main/g/gnumeric
  Files:
   63aefa5c2080d0eea3927fa21c7955fc 1101 gnumeric_0.64-1.1.dsc
   49673e41e314dacc54ea5aa74c0792ea 7133532 gnumeric_0.64.orig.tar.gz
   0a2bdd73cb0ed338e605629f15be633b 5730 gnumeric_0.64-1.1.diff.gz

The Build-Depends: line means that, in addition to the stuff that the
build-essential package depends on, you also need that list of packages
with the appropriate versions in order to build the package. The stable
release doesn't have new enough versions of many of these packages, and
doesn't have some of the others at all, so you may have problems getting
the recent package to build. If you're lucky, it might be possible
anyway, if you install as many of the build dependencies as you can.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]