Re: Gnumeric 0.54 will not start, under RedHat 7

[jgotts linuxsavvy com]

The gnome-print spec file is broken.  It doesn't generate a proper fontmap
file, because the spec file cannot find run-gnome-font-install which should
either be installed somewhere on the system or incorporated into the spec file.

cvs diff -u -r1.9 -r 1.10 gnome-print.spec.in

shows the change that doesn't work.  Reversing the change produces a fontmap
file that seems to work, but obviously that gnome-font-install command line is
much shorter than the run-gnome-font-install script which probably has much
more functionality.

John

In message <jy66ljv4fx fsf le-french-hacker eazel com>, Mathieu Lacage writes:

>"John P. Verel" <jverel home com> writes:
>
>> When I attempt to launch gnumeric 0.54-4, I get a message which says,
>> "Gnumeric failed to find a suitable default font.  Please verify your
>> gnome-print installation and that your fontmap file (typically located in
>> /usr/local/share/fonts/fontmap) is not empty or nearly empty.)"
>> 
>> In fact, I have no such directory.
>
>It is a file. Best is probably to download a tarball of gnome-print,
>compile it and use the gnome-print-install program provided
>in it. I do not have RH7 here. otherwise, I would have sent you my fontmap 
>file.
>
>If you are using helix rpms, I have already seen this problem: they have a bug
>which does not install the fontmap file. If you are using RH7's gnome-print,
>I guess they have a bug too.
>
>
>regards,
>Mathieu
>
>> I did an rpm -e on gnumeric and reinstalled, to no effect.
>> 
>> I'm running RedHat 7, gnome-print 0.20-8
>> 
>> Any guidance to fix this will be appreciated.  As best I recall, gnumeric
>> worked fine before the upgrade to RH7
>> 
>> John
> 
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