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stonecrest

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From: Boulder

Registered: 2005-01-22

Posts: 1,190

Gnumeric without GNOME

I thought I'd post this in case others weren't aware of the fact that you can install Gnumeric with very few GNOME deps. Apparently most of the GNOME dependencies that Arch has for Gnumeric are, in fact, optional. To see the list of deps, go here and scroll down to the table.

So, here's what you do. I've written it out a bit for those who are less familiar with PKGBUILDs.

1. Run "abs" so that you get the latest PKGBUILDs.
2. Go to /var/abs/extra/lib/goffice, edit the PKGBUILD so that the deps say:

depends=('libgsf' 'libgnomeprint')

and then run "makepkg" and "pacman -A" the package.
3. Go to /var/abs/extra/office/gnumeric, edit the PKGBUILD so that the deps say:

depends=('libgnomeprintui' 'goffice')

and so the configure line says:

./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome --without-guile --without-gnome --without-psiconv

and then run "makepkg" and "pacman -A" the package.
4. Copy your goffice and gnumeric directories to /var/abs/local so they don't get overwritten.

Note that you'll get a few error msgs about gconftool not installed and other gnome things that I was too lazy to remove because they can be safely ignored.

Enjoy your speedy OOo calc replacement

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tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: Gnumeric without GNOME

Interesting - just one suggestion. Anytime I'm modifying official PKGBUILDs, I copy them to /var/abs/local/<pkgname> first, to preserve the integrity of the ABS tree, and to prevent your changes being overwritten next time you sync it.

stonecrest

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From: Boulder

Registered: 2005-01-22

Posts: 1,190

Re: Gnumeric without GNOME

That's a good suggestion, I edited the post to add that. Thanks.

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ConnorBehan

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From: Long Island NY

Registered: 2007-07-05

Posts: 1,359

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Re: Gnumeric without GNOME

[necromancy]
1. Does this work with abiword?
2. Does this still work with gnumeric?
[/necromancy]

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SamC

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From: Calgary

Registered: 2008-05-13

Posts: 611

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Re: Gnumeric without GNOME

[necromancy]is a bad thing[/necromancy]

segoe

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Registered: 2009-06-23

Posts: 5

Re: Gnumeric without GNOME

AFAIK abiword can be built without gnome dependencies by configuring it as:
./configure --disable-gnome --disable-printing --disable-spellcheck --with-libxml2

However you would be unable to print anything without the libraries.
Didn't tried it, but more information can be found here: http://www.beranger.org/index.php?article=2306&page=3k

Mr Pink57

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From: a van down by the river

Registered: 2009-05-30

Posts: 91

Re: Gnumeric without GNOME

There is abiword light in ABS which I think has most of those dependencies already removed.

pink

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