Re: After upgrade to RedHat 7.0, gnumeric no longer works.

[jgotts linuxsavvy com]

In message <20010301083921 B21400 parallel tymbri org>, Jody Goldberg writes:

> On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 08:33:54PM -0600, Steve Cohen wrote:

> > Also running the RPM Verify function over gnumeric-0.54-4.i386.rpm (the 
> > RPM that came with the install) tells me that everything is in order, 
> > but obviously, it isn't.

> > Can anyone tell me what is going on here?  All other GNOME graphical 
> > applications seem to work, such as GXEdit, GIMP, gnotepad, gedit, 
> > Calendar, VIM, etc.

> Actually everything is in order with gnumeric.  The problem you are
> seeing is with another package that gnumeric depends on,
> gnome-print.  Older versions of gnome-print some times missed fonts
> when getting configured.  I believe the most common source of
> problems was that it did not explicitly depend on ghostscript font
> packages.

> My recommendation would be to
> 1) Install ghostscript and its fonts

> 2) Get more recent packages for gnome-print and gnumeric
> gnome-print >= 0.25
> gnumeric    >= 0.61 (current release is 0.63)

This is an ancient gnome-print packaging error that I fixed in CVS after the
release of 0.25.  Unfortunately there hasn't been a new gnome-print release
since 0.25 was released on November 13th so everybody is still broken.

Red Hat should really issue an update for 7.0, because gnome-print is basically
unusable therein.

Now gnome-print 0.25 works if you do a make ; make install but who uses
un-package managed systems nowadays?

John

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