Has gnumeric been abandoned by Ubuntu Linux

[Bret Busby]

On 29/3/23 00:31, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> On 3/28/23 10:54, Bret Busby wrote:
>> On 28/3/23 22:54, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 8:12 AM Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> In running Linux Mint 21.1,  which uses the Ubuntu 22.04 repositories,
>>>> and, wanting to open a downloadable spreadsheet in gnumeric, and,
>>>> finding that I do not have it installed, thence, searching for 
>>>> gnumeric,
>>>> using synaptic, the results returned, include
>>>> gir1.2-gnumeric
>>>> gnumeric-common
>>>> gnumeric-doc
>>>> gnumeric-plugins-extra
>>>>
>>>> but, not gnumeric itself.
>>>
>>> I'm running Ubuntu 22.04, and the program is present:
>>>
>>> $ apt-cache search gnumeric
>>> diffoscope - in-depth visual diff tool for files, archives and 
>>> directories
>>> diffoscope-minimal - in-depth visual diff tool for files, archives and
>>> directories (minimal package)
>>> gir1.2-gnumeric - GObject introspection data for the Gnumeric 
>>> spreadsheet
>>> gnumeric - spreadsheet application for GNOME - main program
>>> gnumeric-common - spreadsheet application for GNOME - common files
>>> gnumeric-doc - spreadsheet application for GNOME - documentation
>>> gnumeric-plugins-extra - spreadsheet application for GNOME - 
>>> additional plugins
>>> libspreadsheet-writeexcel-perl - module to create Excel spreadsheets
>>> python-xlwt-doc - module for writing Microsoft Excel spreadsheet 
>>> files - doc
>>> python3-xlwt - module for writing Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files - 
>>> Python 3.x
>>>
>>> $ lsb_release -a
>>> No LSB modules are available.
>>> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
>>> Description:    Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS
>>> Release:        22.04
>>> Codename:       jammy
>>>
>>> Maybe it's a Linux Mint thing. Perhaps you should ask on one of their
>>> mailing lists.
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>>
>> Unfortunately, the primary Linux Mint mailing list is defunct, and, 
>> so, I started a second Linux Mint mailing list on the same host, and, 
>> after about five months, I am still, the only subscriber.
>>
>> Linux Mint appears to be not supported, in terms of mailing lists.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> ..
>> Bret Busby
>> Armadale
>> West Australia
>> (UTC+0800)
>> ..............
>>
>>
> 
> https://forums.linuxmint.com/  is active but it is web based only as far 
> as I know. There is also a sub-reddit for mint on reddit if you're ok 
> with using something like that.
> 
> Regards, Jim
> 

This has previously been mentioned in the thread.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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