Hi Martin, it seems that you have several copies of gnumeric installed. Probably a left over from the time you tried to compile it yourself (and likely did not specify the correct prefix) and from your rpms. (The error message really only relates to the documentation though.) I say that because your error message comes from 1.2.1 and not 1.2.8. Try to find all the gnumeric binaries and directories to get rid of them and reinstall it from rpm. Now about copying between emacs and gnumeric. Well that is a problem. Emacs copies to teh PRIMARY X selection while gnumeric uses the CLIPBOARD (as it should). If you throw gedit intot eh mix you'll notice that copying (selecting) in emacs and then trying to paste (using the menu or ctrl-v) into gedit does not work, but center clicking does. If you copy from gedit using the menu or ctrl-v then pasting into gnumeric does work... Andreas On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 15:48, Martin Donald wrote: > Can anyone help me get a properly working gnumeric installed on top of > RedHat Enterprise Linux 3? I have tried and, so far, have failed. > > At work I have had to upgrade from RedHat 9 to RHEL3 and desparately > need a working gnumeric to speed my work. Emacs, octave, emacs-calc, > and awk do good work but sometimes a speadsheet is the better tool to > handle a subset of data. Paste to gnumeric, manipulate, paste back > out. > > I have installed gnumeric-1.2.8-1.i386.rpm along with > > libbonoboui-devel-2.4.0-1.i386.rpm > libbonoboui-2.4.0-1.i386.rpm > libbonobo-devel-2.4.0-1.i386.rpm > libbonobo-2.4.0-1.i386.rpm > libIDL-devel-0.8.2-1.i386.rpm > libIDL-0.8.2-1.i386.rpm > ORBit2-devel-2.8.2-1.i386.rpm > ORBit2-2.8.2-1.i386.rpm > GConf2-devel-2.4.0-1.i386.rpm > GConf2-2.4.0-1.i386.rpm > libgnomeui-devel-2.4.0.1-1.i386.rpm > libgnomeui-2.4.0.1-1.i386.rpm > > I had also tried compiling gnumeric-1.2.13 from source along with > libgsf-1.10.0 and rplay-3.3.2 which are still in my stock RHEL3 system > > Both the compiled gnumeric-1.2.13 and the packaged gnumeric-1.2.8-1 > worked but I was unable to paste from emacs or xterm into gnumeric. I > can import a file but the widget to parse the data is a big ugly nasty > thing, nothing like I had used before on RedHat 9 (gnumeric-1.0.12-3). > > I have also tried > > gnumeric-1.0.12-3.i386.rpm > gnumeric-1.2.5-1.i386.rpm > gnumeric-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm > > without success > > Even though I was able to successfully rpm gnumeric-1.2.8-1.i386.rpm I > suspect that I do not have all the library packages that I need. One > clue is that when I try to import data I get the messages > > warning: failed to load external entity "/usr/share/gnumeric/1.2.1-bonobo/share/gnome/help/gnumeric/C/gnumeric.xml%20is%20not%20installed" > Writing ld-id2831715.html for imagedata > Writing ld-id2831753.html for imagedata -- Andreas J. Guelzow Taliesin Software, Shelties, Pyr Sheps and Shetland Sheep
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