Thanks very much to everybody for helping. Have got gnumeric installed and working fine now, Steve
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 3:54 PM, J. Van Brimmer <[email protected]> wrote: > Steve, > > Try this: > > $ su > Then enter your root password (I assume you set up a root password during > installation.) > > # apt-get update > # apt-get install gnumeric > > > > > > > On Monday, August 4, 2014 7:01 AM, Steve Greig <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > I know this is really basic stuff but on putting my password in after sudo > apt-get update I got the response steve (ie me) is not in the subdoers > file. This incident will be reported. Any guidance here would be very much > appreciated. I fully intend to read up on this stuff but getting gnumeric > is a bit urgent for me as my business accounts are on it. > > > On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 11:37:03AM +0100, Steve Greig wrote: > > I have been using gnumeric for year on Windows. I just started using > Linux > > after a long gap and also on a different distro so I am a bit out of my > > depth. One of the most important things for me is to have gnumeric. I > can't > > see it already installed and I cant find Synaptic which I have used a > > couple of years ago. I would really appreciate some advice on how to > > install gnumeric on my Debian wheezy OS. I have used the command line > > before but am very rusty on it. > > I don't have wheezy here to test, but the following ought to work. If > you have sudo on your account: > > sudo aptitude install -P ~n^gnumeric > > > otherwise su to the root user first: > > su - > aptitude install -P ~n^gnumeric > > > This ought to install the gnumeric application, common files, > documentation, and standard plugins. If you prefer to manually choose > which to install: > > aptitude search gnumeric > aptitude install [name of package from above] > > (remember to use sudo or su as needed). > > > > > -- > Steven > _______________________________________________ > gnumeric-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnumeric-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnumeric-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list > >
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