Getting Gnumeric
There are three ways of getting Gnumeric: from your OS distribution, third-party binaries, and from source code.
Getting Gnumeric From Your Distribution
This is by far the easiest way to get Gnumeric since the distribution will have taken care of the necessary libraries too. However, some distributions do not ship Gnumeric or ship a very old version. If yours is one of those, please tell them that you would like them to ship a recent version of Gnumeric.
Please refer to your distribution's documentation for details on how to install Gnumeric.
If your distribution does not come with Gnumeric, it would be helpful if you filed a request for it.
Getting Gnumeric From Third Parties
Some people have gone through the trouble of compiling Gnumeric themselves and offer pre-compiled packages for others to use.
- SuSE Linux
- Fairly new packages are available from Novell.
- Microsoft Windows
- There is a build of 1.10.16 available. Please report bugs here. Here is a list of known bugs for the Win32 build. Note: this build does not work on Win9x and since GTK+ will probably never support Win9x, that is not likely to change in the future.
If you have packages available that you would like to share with the world, please let us know.
Getting Gnumeric From Source
This is the method of choice for people who want the very latest version of Gnumeric without waiting for the binary sources to catch up. This is also the method for people who wish to help test development versions of Gnumeric.
Stable Branch
The current stable version of Gnumeric is 1.12.2. Please read the release notes. The source code is available as a xz compressed tarball. Dependencies for this version are:
| Dependency | Version | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| glib | >= 2.28.0 | |
| gtk+ | >= 3.2.0 | |
| pango | >= 1.24.0 | |
| libgsf | >= 1.14.24 | |
| GOffice | >= 0.10.2 | |
| intltool | >= 0.35.0 | Needed to compile, not to run |
| Scrollkeeper | ? | Needed to compile, not to run |
| gnome-xml | >= 2.4.12 | |
| python | >= 2.0 | optional |
| gda | >= 1.0.1 | optional |
| libgnomedb | >= 1.0.1 | optional |
Development Branch
There currently is no development branch.
Getting Old Versions of Gnumeric
If you wish, you can get the source code for old versions of Gnumeric too. Old release announcements can be found here.
- 1.12 series (current stable branch)
- 1.11 series
- 1.10 series
- 1.9 series
- 1.8 series
- 1.7 series
- 1.6 series
- 1.5 series
- 1.4 series
- 1.3 series
- 1.2 series
- 1.1 series
- 1.0 series