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Title: Noob problems trying to compile Gnumeric
Post by: Sprintrdriver on November 07, 2019, 01:56:31 PM: Hi.
I'm trying to compile Gnumeric, following the INSTALL file - but runs into problem imediately.
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gnumeric-1.12.46  ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether make supports nested variables... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... yes checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for gtk-doc... no configure: WARNING: You will not be able to create source packages with 'make dist' because gtk-doc is not found. checking for gtkdoc-check... no checking for gtkdoc-check... no checking for gtkdoc-rebase... no checking for gtkdoc-mkpdf... no checking whether to build gtk-doc documentation... no checking for GTKDOC_DEPS... no checking whether NLS is requested... yes ./configure: line 3819: intltool-update: command not found checking for intltool >= 0.35.0... found configure: error: Your intltool is too old. You need intltool 0.35.0 or later.And then:
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gnumeric-1.12.46  make check make: *** No rule to make target 'check'. Stop.

I'll post updates - if I manage to get any way forward with this.

[edit]So using Synaptic, I didn't find gtk-doc directly, but gtk-doc-tools. I hope this one include the gtk-doc also.
Title: Re: Noob problems trying to compile Gnumeric
Post by: Jerry on November 07, 2019, 02:25:08 PM: You're trying to compile software - Gnumeric, that requires newer packages. You should be able to get the version of software you need from Synaptic. There is a mismatch between what you are trying to install and what versions of dependencies you have. If you absolutely must have this version of Gnumeric, you'll have to find another way.

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Title: Re: Noob problems trying to compile Gnumeric
Post by: Sprintrdriver on November 07, 2019, 02:38:06 PM: Thanks Jerry.

However, I won't just give up - so I'm sorry if I waste time, but I want to try to figure out if I can do this - or if it somehow is completely impossible, or if it would take eons to guide me through it.

Anyway, I get slightly closer - one error message less now, after installing the gtk-doc-tools using Synaptic:

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gnumeric-1.12.46  ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether make supports nested variables... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... yes checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for gtk-doc... yes checking for gtkdoc-check... gtkdoc-check.test checking for gtkdoc-check... /usr/bin/gtkdoc-check checking for gtkdoc-rebase... /usr/bin/gtkdoc-rebase checking for gtkdoc-mkpdf... /usr/bin/gtkdoc-mkpdf checking whether to build gtk-doc documentation... no checking for GTKDOC_DEPS... no checking whether NLS is requested... yes ./configure: line 3819: intltool-update: command not found checking for intltool >= 0.35.0... found configure: error: Your intltool is too old. You need intltool 0.35.0 or later.
So next one is to upgrade intltool - (I do that tomorrow, now is an important football match I just have to see, bye)
Title: Re: Noob problems trying to compile Gnumeric
Post by: Jerry on November 07, 2019, 02:39:45 PM: I've given you the best practice advise. Just be aware that if you try to force install this, there will be no Support for it.
Title: Re: Noob problems trying to compile Gnumeric
Post by: DeepThought on November 07, 2019, 03:26:32 PM: @Sprintrdriver I'm interested in why you have chosen to compile gnumeric when it is available in the ubuntu repository.
A simple sudo apt install gnumeric should be enough to install.

I have gnumeric-1.12.35 installed myself using that command and I doubt there's any major difference with the gnumeric-1.12.46 you are trying to install.
Title: Re: Noob problems trying to compile Gnumeric
Post by: Sprintrdriver on November 09, 2019, 10:50:48 AM: Quote from: DeepThought on November 07, 2019, 03:26:32 PM
@Sprintrdriver I'm interested in why you have chosen to compile gnumeric when it is available in the ubuntu repository.
Not because it is easy. And maybe because I'm too stupid to realize it is too hard and should give up.

Anyway - this is as far I've got - after installing several packages according to output list from the ./configure command

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checking for gzread in -lz... yes Package libgoffice-0.10 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libgoffice-0.10.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'libgoffice-0.10' found Package libgoffice-0.10 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libgoffice-0.10.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'libgoffice-0.10' found checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.18... yes checking for GTK... no configure: error: Package requirements ( gtk+-3.0 >= 3.8.7 ) were not met: No package 'gtk+-3.0' found Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed software in a non-standard prefix. Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GTK_CFLAGS and GTK_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the pkg-config man page for more details.
The last packages installed by Synfig is "libgoffice-0.10-10" and "libgoffice-0.10-10-common" (before above command output).

So that wasn't enough - maybe I also need to install the "libgoffice-0.10-dev" package ?
Title: Re: Noob problems trying to compile Gnumeric
Post by: Sprintrdriver on November 09, 2019, 11:02:41 AM: Update: Didn't work too well - here is what error I got when tried to install the "libgoffice-0.10-dev" package using Synaptic:

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E: Unable to correct missing packages W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/expat/libexpat1_2.2.5-3ubuntu0.1_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.23 80] W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/expat/libexpat1_2.2.5-3ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.23 80] W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/m/mesa/libwayland-egl1-mesa_19.0.8-0ubuntu0~18.04.1_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.23 80] W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libx/libxslt/libxslt1.1_1.1.29-5ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.23 80] W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/expat/libexpat1-dev_2.2.5-3ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.23 80] W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/m/mesa/mesa-common-dev_19.0.8-0ubuntu0~18.04.1_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.23 80] W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/m/mesa/libegl1-mesa-dev_19.0.8-0ubuntu0~18.04.1_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.23 80] W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libx/libxslt/libxslt1-dev_1.1.29-5ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.23 80]
Title: Re: Noob problems trying to compile Gnumeric
Post by: Moltke on November 09, 2019, 05:02:55 PM: You might be better off by installing virtualbox, create a Linux Lite virtual machine and try whatever it is you want to try there, so you don't mess your OS up. Just my 2 cents.