A workaround, mentioned in Bug #91588, which worked for me is to install gnumeric-gtk instaed of gnumeric.
Then you can open .xls files fine. You may lose the one set of the plugins, but you gain the functionality of using xls files -- unsupported file format https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/52520 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
