[clue-tech] gentoo, AMD64, gnumeric and excel

[Ken MacFerrin]

Dave Price wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> With all the gentoo discussion of late, I thought this would be a good
> place to ask...
> 
> I have gentoo up and running on an Athlon64 - did an emerge gnumeric,
> and gnumeric loads fine.
> 
> When I try to open an excel/xls file, I get an error about unsupported
> format and it seems a missing plugin - but the plugin is there and
> readable - even show in the plugins window exactly the same as my
> other working gnumeric under centOS..
> 
> [davep at HTPC:~/proj/hightec]$ Reading
> file:///home/davep/proj/hightec/Hightec.xlsE Unable to open module
> file "/usr/lib/gnumeric/1.4.3/plugins/excel/excel".
>  E /usr/lib/gnumeric/1.4.3/plugins/excel/excel.so: undefined symbol:
> gsf_xml_in_parse

A little googling says this is an issue with gnumeric 1.4.3:
"gnumeric built against the latest libgsf package fails to read excel
spreadsheets (and possibly other types).  The excel plugin tries to use
the gsf_xml_in_parse() function that no longer exists in libgsf
(replaced by gsf_xml_in_doc_parse)"

I'd try updating to the "testing" version:
# echo "app-office/gnumeric ~amd64" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
# emerge -a gnumeric

-Ken