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When I try to install gnumeric from the app catalogue I get "installation failed".
When I subsequently tried from xterm I got:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
gnumeric is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
/bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: not found
Setting up gnumeric (1.7.0-1indt3) ...
dpkg: error processing gnumeric (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
gnumeric
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Any ideas?

Are you trying a fresh install or an upgrade?
for an update you first have to remove the old installation.

If you are trying a fresh install, then i dont know, sorry.

Fresh install...
The odd thing is that it appears to have at least partially installed. I can get gnumeric up by trying "gnumeric" in xterm, but it doesn't display on the applications menu or show in the taskbar when running.

I had some problems, made it working, don't know exactly what I did, but here it's approximately:
get gnumeric from the repository, not from a download.
Install "gnumeric extensions" first.

I have a similar problem.

Neither the gnumeric nor the addons will install properly. Trying to apt-get install them on the command line reveals that there are some unsatisfied dependencies.

I had no problem installing gnumeric in the past. Maybe I am missing some vital repo that is different from the one that gnumeric is included in.
Here is the output of an apt-get update and apt-get install gnumeric

Nokia770-26:~# apt-get update
Ign http://maemo.o-hand.com mistral/ Release.gpg
Ign http://marceloeduardo.com mistral Release.gpg
Hit http://maemo.o-hand.com mistral/ Release
Hit http://maemo.o-hand.com mistral/ Packages
Ign http://marceloeduardo.com mistral Release
Ign http://www.maemo.org.br mistral Release.gpg
Get:1 http://maemo-hackers.org mistral Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://mg.pov.lt mistral Release.gpg
Ign http://repository.maemo.org mistral Release.gpg
Ign http://repository.maemo.org mistral Release.gpg
Ign http://downloads.kernelconcepts.de mistral Release.gpgIgn http://www.fulminati.org maemo/ Release.gpg
Hit http://marceloeduardo.com mistral/games Packages
Ign http://www.mulliner.org maemo2 Release.gpg
Hit http://www.maemo.org.br mistral Release
Ign http://bgran.net mistral Release.gpg
Ign http://hl.homelinux.org maemo/ Release.gpg
Ign http://only.mawhrin.net mistral Release.gpg
Hit http://www.maemo.org.br mistral/main Packages
Hit http://www.mulliner.org maemo2 Release
Hit http://maemo-hackers.org mistral Release
Ign http://www.fulminati.org maemo/ Release
Ign http://bgran.net mistral Release
Hit http://repository.maemo.org mistral Release
Hit http://only.mawhrin.net mistral Release
Ign http://downloads.kernelconcepts.de mistral Release
Ign http://home.ufam.edu.br binary-arm/ Release.gpg
Hit http://www.mulliner.org maemo2/free Packages
Ign http://hl.homelinux.org maemo/ Release
Get:2 http://catalogue.tableteer.nokia.com mistral Release.gpg [189B]
Get:3 http://catalogue.tableteer.nokia.com mistral Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://catalogue.tableteer.nokia.com mistral Release
Hit http://only.mawhrin.net mistral/user Packages
Hit http://www.fulminati.org maemo/ Packages
Hit http://bgran.net mistral/user Packages
Hit http://downloads.kernelconcepts.de mistral/free Packages
Hit http://hl.homelinux.org maemo/ Packages
Hit http://catalogue.tableteer.nokia.com mistral Release
Hit http://repository.maemo.org mistral Release
Hit http://mg.pov.lt mistral Release
Hit http://mg.pov.lt mistral/user Packages
Ign http://maemo-hackers.org mistral Release
Ign http://home.ufam.edu.br binary-arm/ Release
Hit http://repository.maemo.org mistral/free Packages
Hit http://mg.pov.lt mistral/other Packages
Hit http://maemo-hackers.org mistral/main Packages
Hit http://repository.maemo.org mistral/non-free Packages
Hit http://home.ufam.edu.br binary-arm/ Packages
Hit http://catalogue.tableteer.nokia.com mistral/user Packages
Hit http://repository.maemo.org mistral/free Packages
Hit http://catalogue.tableteer.nokia.com mistral/user Packages
Hit http://repository.maemo.org mistral/non-free Packages
Fetched 191B in 3s (51B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: http://maemo-hackers.org mistral Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 3A312B21B9E81572
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
Nokia770-26:~# apt-get install gnumeric
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gnumeric: Depends: libgoffice-0-3 (>= 0.3.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libgsf-1-114 (>= 1.14.1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libgsf-gnome-1-114 (>= 1.14.1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: gnumeric-common (= 1.7.0-1indt3) but 1.7.0-1indt1 is to be installed
osso-browser: Depends: hildon-task-navigat but it is not installable
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
Nokia770-26:~#

Just for the record, I have exactly the same problem...I have been meaning to post the same comment/question

My blood pressure gets higher when I still and now try to install Evince (probably better than 770's own pdf-reader), Battlegweled (very nice game), and Gnumeric (I simply need it).
I think that 770's Application Manager is buggy and dangerous because I really had those three applications installed (with OS2005 no problems)(2006: don't remember which repos, Gnum however with strange behavior), but then, when I tried to install Gnum's Plug-ins, the whole Appl.Mgr stopped working completely and had to reflash the OS.
Confused now, my Appl.Mgr tells:
- Under repo "www.maemo.org.br/platform/apt" : Evince and Gnumerics ="not installable", Leafpad ="installable".
- Under repo "marceloeduardo.com/apt" :
Battlegweled ="not installable", all the other games there "installable".
So, under the same repository address there are programs "not installable" and "installable"!
Aargh! Has Gnum's Plug-ins destroyed my 770, or is 770's Appl.Mgr just lousy, or are some developers so careless with their announsements, or what??
Has anybody any hint how can I install - safely - at least the Gnumeric?

The same problem for me...

Oooh - my blood pressure is now normal. Confusing in unsuccesfully installing Evince, Battlegweled and Gnumeric got a very simple solution:
these three repositories must opened and enabled at the same time:
- "www.maemo.org.br/platform/apt mistral user"
- "marceloeduardo.com/apt mistral games"
- "repository.maemo.org/ mistral free non-free".
After refreshing the statuses changed from "not installable" to "installable". Hurrah! I have now Gnumeric (and Evince, Battlegweled).
Separately they are not working. I did not know that!!
Obviously dependaries etc are taken from different repositories but I did not know that!
(I still think that 770's Application Manager is risky and
complicated for the enduser when remembering that it stopped working completely during the Gn Plug-ins installation.)

I will try it too, thank you very much