On Tue 13 Mar 2018 at 08:59:00 (+0000), Joe wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:13:33 +1100 > terryc <ter...@woa.com.au> wrote: > > > What is a simple spreadsheet program that can be installed under > > Stretch. I need to do some work quickly > > > > hint, if your answer is LibreOffice or similar read the question > > again. I'm frustrated that the last few time I wanted to do a simple > > spreadsheet layout, it was easier and faster to craft a LaTex document > > then try and unfathom LibreOffice methods. > > > > 'The' alternative spreadsheet is gnumeric, but it's some years since I > used it last. I recall it as being a bit less Excel-like than > LibreOffice (OpenOffice then) but that might be different now. If you > don't have any other Gnome stuff, gnumeric is likely to pull in quite a > lot of dependencies.
Yes, on a new stretch (print/SSH/standard utilities) with the following installed already: etckeeper cryptsetup dosfstools keyutils gdisk zip apt-show-versions aptitude boot-info-script bootlogd dkms exim4 firmware-linux flac fluid-soundfont-gm fluid-soundfont-gs fluidsynth* gpm lame lynx-cur mc mlocate normalize-audio mutt ntp p7zip-full paps pdftk printer-driver-cups-pdf putty putty-doc python-doc python3.5-doc python-reportlab realpath scrot setcd smartmontools sox strace texlive-luatex* timidity tnef unifont uudeview wicd-curses xournal xpdf xzgv xzoom youtube-dl* apt-listbugs emacs emacs24-common-non-dfsg hwdata hwinfo info inxi jpeginfo firmware-ipw2x00 ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 linux-source alsa-utils arandr aumix-gtk audacious-plugins audacity evince font-manager fvwm get-flash-videos* (where * marks the relatively hungry ones), gnumeric will add: hunspell-en-us enchant libaa1 libdv4 libshout3 gstreamer1.0-plugins-good lp-solve yelp libyelp0 pxlib1 fonts-dejavu libhyphen0 libsuitesparseconfig4 libgsf-1-114 gnumeric-doc libgoffice-0.10-10 gnumeric-common gnome-user-guide libaspell15 yelp-xsl libtag1v5 libgsf-1-common libcolamd2 libenchant1c2a fonts-dejavu-extra gstreamer1.0-x libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 aspell libgoffice-0.10-10-common libhunspell-1.4-0 libtag1v5-vanilla gnumeric libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 libxslt1.1 aspell-en > I'm not aware of a 'simple' spreadsheet, as it is the kind of > application that begs for feature-creep. Synaptic turns up sc, which I > know nothing about, but the description doesn't look compatible with > 'simple', unless the user interface is similar to something you already > know. Cheers, David.