Re: Gnumeric and RHEL3

[Martin Donald <mhd slac stanford edu>]

Hi Andreas,

Thanks. You were right in noticing that the error message was from
version 1.2.1.

I checked up and yes, I had installed 1.2.8, then uninstalled it and
went back to 1.2.1 after getting the message 

/afs/slac.stanford.edu/u/p2/mhd:gnumeric: relocation error: gnumeric: undefined symbol: gdk_threads_lock

when running 1.2.8. I have just repeated that cycle.

There is (and was) only on version and that lives in /usr/bin at
present. I have been careful to keep directories when I built from
source so that I could "make uninstall".

It looks like the Gnome stuff is going closed shop now. Gnumeric
always used to accept from the X clipboard (if the local clipboard was
empty). Now it seems that only the gnome clipboard that is in favor.

The manual still says in section 5.7.4

  Pasting X clipboard in Gnumeric will automatically launch the Text
  Import druid which will assist you in imporitng the plain text
  contents of X clipboard into the spreadsheet. The Text Import druid is
  described in The Text Import Druid.

Thanks again for the help.

Martin.

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 04:17:55PM -0600, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> it seems that you have several copies of gnumeric installed. Probably a
> left over from the time you tried to compile it yourself (and likely did
> not specify the correct prefix) and from your rpms. (The error message
> really only relates to the documentation though.)
>
> I say that because your error message comes from 1.2.1 and not 1.2.8.
> Try to find all the gnumeric binaries and directories to get rid of them
> and reinstall it from rpm.
>
> Now about copying between emacs and gnumeric. Well that is a problem.
> Emacs copies to teh PRIMARY X selection while gnumeric uses the
> CLIPBOARD (as it should). If you throw gedit intot eh mix you'll notice
> that copying (selecting) in emacs and then trying to paste (using the
> menu or ctrl-v) into gedit does not work, but center clicking does. If
> you copy from gedit using the menu or ctrl-v then pasting into gnumeric
> does work...
>
> Andreas 

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            Martin Donald               mhd slac stanford edu