How To Install gnumeric on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnumeric on Ubuntu.
What is gnumeric
gnumeric is:
Gnumeric is a spreadsheet application that interoperates well with other spreadsheets. It comes with plugins that enable it to deal with commonly used spreadsheet file formats.
The following formats can be imported and exported:
- Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP (.xls);
- Microsoft Excel 95 (.xls);
- OASIS XML, OpenOffice.org XML, StarOffice (.sxc);
- Comma/Character Separated Values (.csv);
- Data Interchange Format (.dif);
- Applix version 4 (.as).
Additionally, the following formats can be imported:
- GNU Oleo (.oleo);
- Linear and integer program expression format (.mps);
- Lotus 1-2-3 (.wks, .wk1);
- MS MultiPlan SYLK (.sylk);
- WordPerfect family “Plan Perfect” (.pln);
- Quattro Pro (tm);
- XSpread or SC;
- XBase (.dbf).
Gnumeric can export to LaTeX 2e (.tex), TROFF (.me) and HTML as well.
Gnumeric should be easy to use, in particular for users familiar with Excel.
Gnumeric is a GNOME application. GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System.
There are three methods to install gnumeric on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gnumeric Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnumeric using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnumeric
Install gnumeric Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnumeric using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnumeric
Install gnumeric Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install gnumeric using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnumeric
How To Uninstall gnumeric on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the gnumeric package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnumeric
Uninstall gnumeric And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnumeric and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnumeric
Remove gnumeric Configurations and Data
To remove gnumeric configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnumeric
Remove gnumeric configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnumeric configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnumeric
Dependencies
gnumeric have the following dependencies:
- debconf
- gnumeric-common
- debconf
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgoffice-0.10-10
- libgsf-1-114
- libgtk-3-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libxml2
- pxlib1
- zlib1g
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnumeric package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.