On Nov 12, 2007 5:50 PM, Fernando Avila Castro <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > What do you think? How far back in time do I have to go to find a > > version of Gnumeric that can be compiled under SL5? > > > > Usually the best bet is to compile a src.rpm from FC 6. > > RHEL 5 (and of course SL), took FC6 code and used it for the new > enterprise version. Yes, rebuilding from .fc6.src.rpm is the best way. In many cases, just running: rpmbuild --rebuild --recompile --define 'dist .sl5' --target `uname -m` <sourcefile> may work. In the case of gnumeric, I needed to get several packages from fc6 because of dependencies. One of them was indeed goffice. Akemi