Re: Gnumeric refuses to launch

[Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg home com>]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 01:19:11PM +1100, mpierce wrote:
> I have tried two versions of gnumeric, gnumeric-0.54-4.i386.rpm which came
> with RH7.0 (clean install) and gnumeric-0.56-0_helix_1. Neither program will 
> launch both produce the same error message shown below: 
>
>       Gnumeric failed to find a suitable default font.
>       Please verify your gnome-print installation
>       Your fontmap file could not be found in the expected location.
>
> Could someone please tell me why the program is not working from a clean
> install and what I need to do to fix it. Please email 

This is a long standing problem with gnome-print that is hopefully
fixed in the latest version.  The usual answer is that you have not
instaleld ghostscript and its fonts.  Try installing that then
RE-INSTALLING gnome-print.

You may also want to upgrade to gnumeric-0.57 which iwll link
against a newer gnome-print that has this dependency explicitly.

Good Luck,
    Jody