good spreadsheet?

Forum: Apps
Topic: good spreadsheet?
started by: Present

Posted by Present on Jan. 25 2005,22:36

looks like the abs spreadsheet is quite a dead project, and would like to install a slightly more current version on some old computers (i'm helping to setup a computer lab in a 3rd world country in W Africa).

most computers are 266mhz, 64mb, 3gb systems.

any suggestions? will gnumeric work?

thx
pres

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Jan. 25 2005,23:59

DSL currently uses Siag spreadsheet, and it works fairly well.

Not nearly as crashy as PW, I think.

-J.P.

Posted by Present on Jan. 26 2005,07:23

cool, i'll search for it... sounds great

Posted by Delboy on Feb. 12 2005,19:59

Stick with Siag I'd say - ABS was quite unreliable on my machine and files would be saved but then be unopenable.
Haven't tried Gnumeric but there are a lot of Gnome dependencies which have to loaded too I think for this.

Posted by guni on Feb. 13 2005,22:10

yes gnumeric has a lot of dependencies. It depends on a big part of gnome.

Posted by wientjez on June 08 2005,22:20

Hello,

I would like to have Gnumeric in a dsl-package. I'm trying to build it, but without any success because of lib problems. I tried to compile on another system, but some of the libraries there were different compared to DSL. I think the only way to build Gnumeric is to build every dependency of it on DSL from scratch. That's a tough job. Any suggestions are welcome. It would be great to have a 'reference system' similar to DSL but including dev files.
Installing .deb files with lib dependencies did not seem to work since apt-get wants to install a newer version of libc6, which is - as far as I know - is no option when building a .dsl package for a liveCD.

The reasons why I try to build it are (1) to be able to open excel files, (2) visual attractiveness of GTK2 and (3) it's Gnome dependencies might have decreased resulting in a smaller build (gnumeric 1.4.3):

libgnome >= 2.0.0 optional
libgnomeui >= 2.0.0 optional
libbonobo >= 2.2.0 optional
libbonoboui >= 2.2.0 optional
python >= 2.0 optional
pygtk >= 1.99.10 optional
gda >= 1.0.1 optional
libgnomedb >= 1.0.1 optional

Any suggestions are welcome. Bye!

Posted by Guest on June 09 2005,04:11

This is just a suggestion, so take it with a grain of salt.

Since DSL is based on Knoppix 3.4, what you can do is have Knoppix 3.4 hd-installed and then apt-get the gtk2 libraries and dependencies. Once you made the extension (uci or otherwise), you will have to test it on the DSL iso together with the gtk2.dsl extension that ke4nt1 made.

Another way would be to compile the gtk libraries using the Knoppix 3.4, with the /opt/gnumeric path as target for installation. Then compile the gnumeric package and install it to the same path. Then create a shell wrapper that will set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to /opt/gnumeric/lib (where the gtk libraries was installed).