Re: gnumeric python console under gentoo

[Jon Kåre Hellan <hellan acm org>]

On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 01:57, M. D. Berg wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  I have been trying to follow the directions located at
> http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~ctwardy/starting-with-python.html#console
> to get the gnumeric python console. My operating system is Gentoo Linux
> using the 2.6 kernel. In my "use" line I have included python, libgda,
> gb, evo. libgsf-1.10.0 is already installed. 
>
>  I have taken the comments out of the python-loader/plugin.xml file.
>
>  But still no Tools -> Python console.
>
>  Does anyone have an idea of what I did wrong? I would greatly
> appreciate any suggestions. 

If you are using 1.3, that's the explanation. The Python console uses
features which haven't been ported to 1.3 yet.

With 1.2, you should grab a patch from
http://jk.ufisa.uninett.no/gnumeric/ which solves some memory corruption
issues.

Hope this helps

Jon Kåre