#### Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version 11.1

### Chapter 39. Office Programs

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# Gnumeric-1.12.51

## Introduction to Gnumeric

The Gnumeric package contains a spreadsheet program which is useful for mathematical analysis.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-11.1 platform.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/gnumeric/1.12/gnumeric-1.12.51.tar.xz

- Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/gnumeric/1.12/gnumeric-1.12.51.tar.xz

- Download MD5 sum: 78836667682f796788a529f982168aa3

- Download size: 17 MB

- Estimated disk space required: 270 MB (add 13 MB for tests)

- Estimated build time: 0.8 SBU (Using parallelism=4; add 3.0 SBU for tests)

### Gnumeric Dependencies

#### Required

GOffice-0.10.51 and itstool-2.0.7

#### Recommended Runtime

an icon theme such as adwaita-icon-theme-41.0, oxygen-icons5-5.91.0, or gnome-icon-theme-3.12.0, a graphical environment, and Yelp-41.2 for the buit-in help functionality

#### Optional

DConf-0.40.0 (to prevent some test failures), gobject-introspection-1.70.0, PyGObject-3.42.0, Valgrind-3.18.1 (for some tests), dblatex (for PDF docs), libgda, Mono, pxlib, and Psiconv

User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gnumeric

## Installation of Gnumeric

Install Gnumeric by running the following commands:

    ./configure --prefix=/usr  &&
    make

This package must be installed before the test suite is run.

Now, as the `root` user:

    make install

To run the tests, issue make check. Tests should be run from an active X session, and DConf-0.40.0 should be installed to prevent some failures. Eight valgrind tests are known to fail.

## Command Explanations

`--enable-pdfdocs`: Use this switch if you have installed dblatex and wish to create PDF docs.

## Contents

Installed Programs: gnumeric (symlink), gnumeric-1.12.51, ssconvert, ssdiff, ssgrep, and ssindex
Installed Libraries: libspreadsheet.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/libspreadsheet-1.12, /usr/lib/gnumeric, /usr/lib/goffice/0.10/plugins/gnumeric, /usr/share/gnumeric, and /usr/share/help/{C,cs,de,es}/gnumeric

### Short Descriptions

gnumeric | is a symlink to gnumeric-1.12.51
gnumeric-1.12.51 | is GNOME's spreadsheet application
ssconvert | is a command line utility to convert spreadsheet files between various spreadsheet file formats
ssdiff | is a command line utility to compare two spreadsheets
ssgrep | is a command line utility to search spreadsheets for strings
ssindex | is a command line utility to generate index data for spreadsheet files
`libspreadsheet.so` | contains the gnumeric API functions

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