Ok some good news, this morning I fixed both of the above problems as follows (plugin manager active plugins stay and File->Preferences works, btw unless I was dreaming I am pretty sure I had the same exact problem in the gnumeric deb package too and it should be fixed the same way).
I downloaded the 1.7.11 source from the gnumeric website. First just did apt-get build-dep gnumeric and then ./configure; make; sudo make install. Same problems. Then I noticed some dependencies were missing after ./configure (it ignored them) and did: sudo aptitude install libgda3-dev libpsiconv-dev libgnomedb3-dev Recompiled and fixed! Not sure which of these actually was the problem- maker. Misha -- gnumeric file open will not open xls files https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/163146 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
