[gentoo-user] Gnumeric USE options and .xlsx files?

[gentoo-user] Gnumeric USE options and .xlsx files?

[Walter Dnes]

  Is Gnumeric unable to handle Excel .xlsx files or am I missing a USE
flag somewhere?  Or is there a quick-n-dirty viewer/translator?  I've
downloaded a file from Auto Observer.  Gnumeric segfaults trying to open
it, after issuing the message...
"MarketShare!P70 : Dropping missing object"

  I'm running pure 64-bit AMD64 Gentoo on an Intel i3.  Any ideas other
than one of the "*Office" alternatives?  They're best described as
"About: kitchen sink"...

USE="qt3support ssl accessibility kde dbus exceptions" emerge -pv qt-core kspread
Total: 41 packages (41 new), Size of downloads: 304,022 kB

emerge -pv libreoffice
Total: 24 packages (23 new, 1 in new slot), Size of downloads: 528,859 kB

emerge -pv openoffice
Total: 22 packages (21 new, 1 in new slot), Size of downloads: 564,301 kB

  The file in question is...
http://www.autoobserver.com/car-data-center/assets/2011-03%20Sales.xlsx

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnumeric USE options and .xlsx files?

[daid kahl]

On 3 March 2011 11:44, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
>  Is Gnumeric unable to handle Excel .xlsx files or am I missing a USE
> flag somewhere?

> emerge -pv libreoffice

> http://www.autoobserver.com/car-data-center/assets/2011-03%20Sales.xlsx

Tried your file in OO.o 3.2.1.  Let me get you my USE flags for
reference: "cups dbus gstreamer gtk java ldap nsplugin opengl* pam
(-aqua) -bash-completion* -binfilter -debug -eds -gnome -kde
(-kdeenablefinal) -odk -templates"

I hope that's cool for you.  So I didn't build it with opengl, but I
did with bash-completion, and I changed make.conf since.

Anyway, if you ask me, libreoffice is still in the works in terms of
the ebuild.  I don't want to toot my own horn, but see
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295268 which very well
indicates that the libreoffice ebuild was not derived from, nor
seriously considering past problems encountered by, the openoffice
ebuild.  IMO I'd hash it to a libreoffice problem, since I can open
your document over here.

Don't get me wrong, I'll be more than happy to switch to libreoffice,
but I'm not convinced, at the very least, that the Gentoo team has it
squared away yet.  No blame there, it's just as easily an upstream
problem.

But I really doubt it's a USE flag...

Cheers,
daid