I have a stable (2.2r3) system and this is the wrong time for me to think of upgrading to testing. It would be very useful, though, to have a more up-to-date version of gnumeric than the one available in stable (stable has 0.47; testing has 0.64).
I don't use the whole gnome beast, but I do use two parts of it---gnumeric and panel, so I have (at least) as much of the gnome setup as is required to run them. I thought to try to compile the version of gnumeric that's in testing and tried: apt-get --compile source gnumeric (after adding the needed line to sources.list and updating). The configuration script, however, exits early on with this message: configure: error: Could not find the gnomeConf.sh file that is generated by gnome-libs install make: *** [build-stamp] Error 1 Build command 'cd gnumeric-0.64 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed. E: Child process failed I'm not sure which of the gnome libraries causes the creation of gnomeConf.sh on installation. Guessing, I tried installing libgnome-dev from stable, but apt offered to install a total of 13 packages to satisfy dependencies. And that seemed like too much overhead for an upgrade of one program, especially when I wasn't sure that installing all that stuff would actually solve the problem. Is there anyone who has successfully compiled more recent versions of gnumeric on a potato system? Or is there anyone who could offer advice on how to get further with this? Thanks very much, Jim