Re: unable to get gnumeric to run

["Himanshu J. Gohel" <gohel csee usf edu>]

Marcus Hutchinson wrote:

> I went back to sgi freeware and installed everything I could find that
> was Gnome related and still gnumeric wont run :(
> 
> here is a list of whats now installed on my system:

Here's a handy command for IRIX (if you didn't already know of it):

% showprods -u fw_gnumeric

This shows (in part) the prerequisites:

                subsys gnumeric  # (fw_gnumeric.sw.gnumeric)
                        id "gnumeric-0.54 execution only env"
                        default
                        # installed Wed Sep 13 22:39:37 2000
                        exp fw_gnumeric.sw.gnumeric
                        replaces patch*.fw_gnumeric_sw.gnumeric 0
1236614419
                        replaces maint*.fw_gnumeric_sw.gnumeric 0
1236614419
                        replaces fw_gnumeric.sw.gnumeric 0 1236614419
                        prereq (
                                compiler_eoe.sw32.lib 1232792133
1239999900
                                fw_gnome-libs.sw.gnome-libs 1236500000
                                    1239999900
                                fw_gnome-print.sw.gnome-print 1236500000
                                    1239999900
                                fw_guile.sw.guile 1235947120 1239999900
                                fw_libglade.sw.lib 1236500000 1239999900
                                fw_libxml.sw.libxml 1236500000
1239999900
                                x_eoe.sw32.eoe 1232792130 1253422531
                        )
                        prereq (
                                fw_gnome-libs.sw.gnome-libs 1236500000
                                    1239999900
                                fw_gnome-print.sw.gnome-print 1236500000
                                    1239999900
                                fw_guile.sw.guile 1235947120 1239999900
                                fw_libglade.sw.lib 1236500000 1239999900
                                fw_libxml.sw.libxml 1236500000
1239999900
                                x_eoe.sw.eoe 1263561138 1289999900
                        )
                endsubsys

As you can see, you need other packages besides fw_gnome*, so please
check your system. However I have a feeling that the software manager
would have complained if the pre-reqs weren't already installed...

> the error I get is can't find suitable default font
> 
> I have all fw_gnome installed, no self compile stuff

Maybe obvious, but on the freeware site there's a list of packages
you need to run GNOME (and apps) successfully.  On my local system,
the URL is:

file:/usr/freeware/selections/gnome

Finally I thought of a solution:

% showfiles -l | grep fontmap

thinking this should show me which package owns a file by that name.
Unfortunately there was no result related to GNOME.  So my guess it
that file is created after installation of certain GNOME packages, and
due to an install problem the post-install script may not have run to
completion.  Could that be the case?  If so, try and re-install from
the latest snapshot of freeware (I think some bugs have been fixed
with the scripts since the first release of GNOME in freeware)

Good luck,

-- 
Himanshu Gohel, mailto:gohel csee usf edu
http://www.csee.usf.edu/~gohel/