Re: Gnumeric fails to launch after install on TinyMeLinux 2008.1 Droplet

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow pyrshep ca>]

On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 18:48 -0400, Reginald Pierce wrote:
> I apologize in apologize in advance for my noobish knowledge of Linux.
>
> I have an old laptop (Dell Latitude CPi) that is at least 8 yrs old that I
> just installed TinyMeLinux 2008.1 (a PCLinuxOS derivative) on.  I
> installed the "Droplet" version (no apps included) because I don't need
> much--this is not my main computer.
>
> I had installed only LyX, Opera, CUPS, and SAMBA, when I installed
> Gnumeric.  When I type the command:
>
> $ gnumeric
>
> I get
>
> /usr/bin/gnumeric: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libspreadsheet-1.9.6.so:
> undefined symbol: g_dgettext

g_dgettext is part of glib 2.18 and later. We don't use g_dgettext in
gnumeric itself, so some library used by gnumeric must be using it.
Gnumeric should be fine with glib 2.12 and later.

Did you compile gnumeric itself? Otherwise where did you get your
gnumeric package?

Andreas 

> Any help with this error would be appreciated
>
> Thanks in advance
-- 
Andreas J. Guelzow <aguelzow pyrshep ca>