Has gnumeric been abandoned by Ubuntu Linux

Bret Busby bret at busby.net
Tue Mar 28 18:23:55 UTC 2023


On 29/3/23 00:09, Colin Law wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Mar 2023 at 16:56, Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
>> ...
>> What I now wonder, given the repositories that I showed in the initial
>> post in this thread, why, if gnumeric is present in the Ubuntu 22.04
>> repositories, synaptic did not find it.
> 
> It should be in universe.  What do these commands show?
> apt policy gnumeric
> apt policy gnumeric-common
> In ubuntu I see
> 
> $ apt policy gnumeric
> gnumeric:
>    Installed: (none)
>    Candidate: 1.12.51-1
>    Version table:
>       1.12.51-1 500
>          500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 Packages
> 
> $ apt policy gnumeric-common
> gnumeric-common:
>    Installed: (none)
>    Candidate: 1.12.51-1
>    Version table:
>       1.12.51-1 500
>          500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 Packages
>          500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe i386 Packages
> 
Both command return nothing - they simply return to the prompt, with no 
response displayed.

That is by invoking both commands from within a sudo -i session.

..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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