Description of problem: Excel import support seems to be missing Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnumeric-1.6.2-1.fc5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Find a valid excel file (which previously worked in Gnumeric for FC4) 2. Open it in Gnumeric Actual results: A box pops up with "Error" in the title bar, and "Unsupported file format." in the text. The file does not open. Expected results: The spreadsheet should open. Additional info:
I guess you have a corrupt excell file there and that gnumeric checks become more strict, excell import is most definetly included and works for me: [hans@shalem ~]$ gnumeric Reading file:///home/hans/doc/Landerbahnmodellen.xls Excel 95 No problems there. If you feel this really is a bug please report it upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi (gnumeric is at the end of the page) If you report it upstream please add a comment here with the bug ID, then I can track it and integrate any fixes into Fedora's gnumeric.
After looking at gnumeric more, under Tools -> Plugins all plugins were unselected, although the "Activate new plugins by default" is checked. Activating the "MS Excel (tm)" plugin makes it import xls files properly. This is on a new install of FC5, with specific directories from the previous install/home dir copied over. Tested with a new user account on the machine. It had most plugins selected as it should.