Gus Wirth wrote:
Ralph Shumaker wrote:
[snip]
yum only installs up to the official stable version (1.6.3). One of the
developers of gnumeric said that they are no longer supporting that
version or the print problems in it and suggested that I move to version
1.7.91 for which there is no rpm that I could find. 1.6.3 prints thru
gnome's print system whereas 1.7.90 and later print thru gtk+,
supposedly eliminating many of the printing problems in gnumeric.
Why aren't you using a spec file to build this package?
I don't know what a spec file is. I wasn't aware of it until now.
There might not be a spec file yet but you can use the one from the
current package and then modify it. I do that all the time with things
like the WINE packages.
'the current package' being what? gnumeric? one of the packages I've
already yum-installed? If gnumeric, which version? the one already
installed and working? or the one I'm trying to get to work?
You might want to practice with the existing package. Set up a personal
build environment, install the source and then build the package. That
will help you understand how things work, and the source package for
Fedora may have patches which your source tarball doesn't include.
'Set up a personal build environment'? 'install the source'? I think
this is what I've done, or have been attempting to do. I've downloaded
the gnumeric-1.7.91.tar.bz2
<http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnumeric/1.7/gnumeric-1.7.91.tar.bz2>
package into its very own directory 'gnumeric-1.7.91'. From there, I
extracted the only item in the bz2, namely the gnumeric-1.7.91 directory
along with its contents. The directory I'm working from is
'~/unpack/gnumeric-1.7.91/gnumeric-1.7.91'. I did a cd into that
directory and have been performing ./configure from there.
And I don't quite grasp what you are saying 'and the source package for
Fedora may have patches ...'. 'source package from Fedora'?
My goal is to get gnumeric 1.7.91 installed and working. If I have to
learn more than I ever wanted to know about ./configure and ./make and
./make install, then so be it. I may forget parts of it later, but it
will be easier the next time I need to do it.
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Ralph
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