Comments on: Gnumeric wrapper for Mac OS X

By: Electra

Electra — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:31:28 +0000

Can you tell me how yo install it with macports? Ive never really used terminal and the intsructions to install this on a mac don’t seem to want to work for me.

By: Rakko

Rakko — Mon, 19 May 2008 05:36:53 +0000

Also, I noticed a few mistakes. In Info.plist, there is a key 10.3.9 with a value LSMinimumSystemVersion. I think the key and value are interchanged. Also, the CFBundleTypeTypeName (type description) for .xls files is misspelled as “Microsfot Excel File”.

Another question: I tried Platypus and made my own wrapper, but when I use the wrapper to open a file with spaces in its name, it doesn’t properly quote the filename. I use “$@” just like in your script. Your script opens files with spaces just fine though!

I tried changing the interpreter for the script (in Platypus) to bash instead of sh, and that fixed it, but it’s still mysterious because your script has sh set as its interpreter. So what’s special about yours that it correctly quotes “$@”?

By: Rakko

Rakko — Mon, 19 May 2008 03:21:15 +0000

Thanks for this; it’s very helpful. I have a question about its inability to open dropped files after the program is already open — is this a limitation of Platypus, or something else?

By: Rabitho

Rabitho — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:00:25 +0000

Thanks for updating this. Works great on my PPC now! Thanks again!

By: Peder

Peder — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:15:14 +0000

@JiHO and Erich (and other people having problems installing Gnumeric under OS X 10.5 Leopard to whom I hope this can be helpful).
Thanks for your comments guys and sorry for the late reply. I liked Gnumeric for Linux and wanted it for Mac but since I did not manage with Fink or Macports I decided to try out NeoOffice. Finally I have found that the NeoOffice spreadsheet should end with ‘it’ rather than ‘eet’ ;-) so I decided to give another go at porting. I tried out MacPorts since Fink does not have a binary for 10.5. Installation og MacPorts went fine except that the .profile file is not created and the port command cannot be accessed from anywhere. This is apparently a well known bug for 10.5 and will probably soon be fixed but untill then one can simply state the full path: “sudo /opt/local/bin/port”. Doing that I tried installing Gnumeric, but like last time I got _lots_ of errors. I tried installing again and noticed that I had fewer errors. Doing this a couple of times brought me to a steady state where I could see that there were some problems with python-installs (py25-*). I tried installing one of those files (py25-gtk) directly and got an error message with (py25-cairo). After sucesfully trying to install that directly I had another go at Gnumeric and it worked! Finally I got the wrapper and it now works like a charm. Thanks!

By: JiHO

JiHO — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:30:01 +0000

@peder: sorry it seems my comment feed is broken and I did not see your comments pass by. What happens when you start gnumeric from terminal (i.e. when you just type gnumeric). What does:
which gnumeric
outputs?

Basically, for those wanting to know what happens when you start the app you can right click it, select “Show Package Contents”, navigate to Contents/Resources and open the file named “script” in a text editor. That’s all there is to it.

Other than that, you can also modify the file AppSettings.plist and change the key “OutputType” from “None” to “TextWindow” (without space). It will output some stuff there.

By: Tom Dye

Tom Dye — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:02:56 +0000

Works like a charm with gnumeric 1.8.2 from macports. Maururu! Tom

By: Erich Kuester

Erich Kuester — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:01:30 +0000

To Peder,
after doing sudo port install gnumeric did you succeed with the installation? Otherwise the wrapper will not work, of course ;-) Which version you tried for installation? The last published one 1.8.1 has a few mistakes, because some files were not found (the download places had changed and nobody becoame aware of it :-( You have to do some correction by hand …

By: JiHO

JiHO — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:18:29 +0000

You should install gnumeric in Fink or MacPorts. This is just a wrapper. So:
sudo port install gnumeric

By: Peder

Peder — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:49:04 +0000

Ahh … I think I understand. This wrapper is just for starting Gnumeric once it is already installed, right? Any ideas why I can’t install Gnumeric with Fink or MacPorts? Sorry if it’s out-of-topic.