Re: [guppi-list] Gnumeric and Guppi - Failure

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 07:33:22PM +0000, Nick Lamb wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:44:28PM -0500, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> > Please build from source, or patch the spec file to include the
> > missing bits.  There was mention of this on the guppi list a few
> > months back.
> 
> OK, after updating to the "GnomeHide" RPM I now have a chart guru in
> my Gnumeric. Almost nothing works, it's certainly not possible to
> complete the Guru and actually create a chart, a typical set of errors
> look like:

> Is it really this hard? I was honestly expecting that Gnumeric 1.0 would
> mark a place where I could tell users to try Gnumeric instead of Excel,
> but the lack of charts makes that seem impossibly distant.

It is not difficult.  I have no idea what is going on with the
various rpm packagings.  This has worked when built from source
since September.  It has worked via the debian packages for a few
months too.  Can someone please figure out what is going on with the
rpms and feed the required fixes back to the packagers ?