What spreadsheet works in Slacko64? (Solved)

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gardenbod
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What spreadsheet works in Slacko64? (Solved)

#1 Post by gardenbod »

I have Slacko64 running on a Compaq CQ58, with AMD E1. Booting from eiher DVD or Flash drive.It looks good and almost everything works; my aim is to migrate all data from Win 8.1, including spreadsheets.
Problem - Gnumeric cuts out instantly when I try to enter ANY data, by any means.
Open Office or Libreoffice would be good, but I cannot see any way to install them, or reinstall Gnumeric from another source (eg Pet).
Help?

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#2 Post by neerajkolte »

Hi,

Could you try out .sfs file for Libreoffice from HERE.
These sfs files are for Fatdog64 but some of them work in Slacko64.
Worth a try.

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Spreadsheets

#3 Post by gardenbod »

HI
Neeraj, thank you very much for the tip. First time lucky, I tried the version with 'amd' in the title.
It works!!
Regards.
gardenbod

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#4 Post by 01micko »

I found the bug and the fix for gnumeric. Apparently pcre_info is deprecated and completely removed. :/
The above is a link to the patch to apply to goffice which I modded and applied.

new pets are uploaded:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... x86_64.pet
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... x86_64.pet
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... x86_64.pet

And the modded patch:

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diff -rup goffice-0.8.17/goffice/utils/regutf8.c goffice-0.8.17-1/goffice/utils/regutf8.c
--- goffice-0.8.17/goffice/utils/regutf8.c	2009-09-06 09:52:09.000000000 +1000
+++ goffice-0.8.17-1/goffice/utils/regutf8.c	2014-09-02 08:30:02.283292332 +1000
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ go_regcomp (GORegexp *gor, const char *p
 		default: return GO_REG_BADPAT;
 		}
 	} else {
-		gor->re_nsub = pcre_info (r, NULL, NULL);
+		gor->re_nsub = pcre_fullinfo (r, NULL, 0, NULL);
 		gor->nosub = (cflags & GO_REG_NOSUB) != 0;
 		return 0;
 	}
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see french forum, forum francophone

#5 Post by Pelo »

Slacko64 and gnumeric see french forum, forum francophone et postez vos remarques sur le topic de Medor ici en cliquant la zone bleue

Pelo

Don't fear using older versions.

#6 Post by Pelo »

Gnumeric was working quite well in he past. I was employed for statistics in a big airline, and i can tell Gnumeric is a real clone of Excel. Don't fear using older versions.
Use older version of puppy too, to be sure they have been tested by a lot of users.
Some users feed back errors. Merci à eux.
Spread sheets in Libre Office or OOo are of lower quality than Gnumeric. Some calculation are even... wrong !

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#7 Post by 8Geee »

Late, but FreeOffice also works well and is compatable with the "older" microsoft-office versions. I use a chopped us_eng only version. Small and functional.
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#8 Post by Pelo »

FreeOffice is my second hand spreadsheet, when i am using Windows. The look is nice. and it's free, just some mails. Not a problem.
In the back of the debates, Puppy will exist by being different from big ones.. offering the just needed for most of users.

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#9 Post by RickGT351 »

My issue with Gnumeric in Slacko64 was that if I tried to enter a formula, Gnumeric would cause X server to crash. I solved the problem by installing Libre-Office from the sfs repository in Slacko64

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#10 Post by RickGT351 »

How do I apply the patch? Paste it into Geany then execute it or is there a more elegant or effective way?
01micko wrote:I found the bug and the fix for gnumeric. Apparently pcre_info is deprecated and completely removed. :/
The above is a link to the patch to apply to goffice which I modded and applied.

new pets are uploaded:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... x86_64.pet
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... x86_64.pet
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... x86_64.pet

And the modded patch:

Code: Select all

diff -rup goffice-0.8.17/goffice/utils/regutf8.c goffice-0.8.17-1/goffice/utils/regutf8.c
--- goffice-0.8.17/goffice/utils/regutf8.c	2009-09-06 09:52:09.000000000 +1000
+++ goffice-0.8.17-1/goffice/utils/regutf8.c	2014-09-02 08:30:02.283292332 +1000
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ go_regcomp (GORegexp *gor, const char *p
 		default: return GO_REG_BADPAT;
 		}
 	} else {
-		gor->re_nsub = pcre_info (r, NULL, NULL);
+		gor->re_nsub = pcre_fullinfo (r, NULL, 0, NULL);
 		gor->nosub = (cflags & GO_REG_NOSUB) != 0;
 		return 0;
 	}

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