Re: Gnumeric doesn't work in Testing (for me)...

[Eric P <eric.maillist@gmail.com>]

Eric P wrote:
> James Vahn wrote:
> 
>>Eric P wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I'm running testing, recently upgraded all packages to be upgraded
>>>(Gnome 2.10 and Xorg were the biggies), and Gnumeric no longer starts
>>>anymore.
>>>
>>>Here's what I get:
>>>$ gnumeric
>>>gnumeric: symbol lookup error: gnumeric: undefined symbol: cell_formats
>>>
>>>Anyone else have this problem?
>>
>>
>>Yup. Thanks for pointing it out, I'd not want to find out the hard way. 
>>Try "wajig install/unstable gnumeric" and see if that works.
>>
>>  Version table:
>>     1.5.90-1 0
>>         50 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
>> *** 1.5.1-1 0
>>        990 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main Packages
>>
>> 
> 
> Thanks for the tip.
> 
> However, can you clue me into wajig?
> It just reinstalled 1.5.1-1 when I the wajig line up there.
> 
> I tried putting the following in sources.list:
> deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
> 
> But that didn't work, and gave the following errors on apt-get update:
> ...
> Err ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main/Packages Packages
>   Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file.  ' [IP:
> 128.101.80.133 21]
> ...
> Ign ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main/Packages Release
> ---
> 
> I think I'm missing something here.
> Thanks,
> Eric P
> 

Nevermind.  I just grabbed the gnumeric and gnumeric-common packages
from unstable and installed those.

It works again.

Thanks,
Eric P