Re: Gnumeric manual and function reference not working

[Faheem Mitha <faheem email unc edu>]

On Tue, 8 May 2001, Jody Goldberg wrote:

> On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 04:54:26PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> > When I go to the tab to pull down the manual or function reference,
> > gnumeric gives the following 
> >
> > Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
>  
> > checking for gda-config... no
> > configure: warning: GDA plugin will not be built

> GDA for the data base plugin.  It is unrelated.

My distribution (SuSE Linux) doesn't have a package called GDA. Where
would I get it from? What does the data base pulgin do, exactly?

> This problem is not really related to gnumeric directly.  The gnome
> help browser is not installed.  I beleive that is part of the
> gnome-core package.

Ok, good. I will try installing that and see if it does the trick.
Thanks a lot.

                            Sincerely, Faheem Mitha.