Oleo

Oleo has for a long time been GNU's spreadsheet. Now there's not only Oleo but also Gnumeric, the GNOME spreadsheet. Gnumeric is a full featured spreadsheet, aiming to compete with commercial applications, and well integrated with GNOME. Oleo is a light-weight spreadsheet that'll work in almost any environment.

Oleo features a curses based interface (character mode), and also a LessTif (Motif) based graphical user interface. A screenshot of the Motif GUI is here (11K png file).

Downloading Oleo

The current development release of oleo is 1.99.16.

Oleo can be found on the main GNU ftp server: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/oleo/ (via HTTP) and ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/oleo/ (via FTP). It can also be found on the GNU mirrors; please use a mirror if possible.

Current Development

We're working on an upcoming Oleo 2.0 release. The current snapshots already implement the following 2.0 features:

Motif/LessTif interface, based on the XbaeMatrix widget
Access to the statistics functions of the GSL (GNU Scientific Library).
Support for opening multiple spreadsheets, each in a Motif window, at the same time.
device independent graphics through GNU plotutils, replacing the older gnuplot interface
more portable build through autoconf and automake
internationalised (i18n)
updated documentation
ANSI C code (removed K&R stuff)
filter mode (read file from stdin, save to stdout)
better SYLK support
improved printing (PostScript and PCL)
database access (MySQL and DBF files)
SciPlot graphics (Motif/LessTif only)
cleaned up internals
runs in character mode as well as in a GUI
interface to CUPS to browse available printers

Details about recent changes are available in the ChangeLog file. There is a manually updated version of ChangeLog here, you can get the latest version from CVSWEB using a URL like http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/oleo/ChangeLog?rev=1.150 but then you need to know the latest version number (1.150 at the time I write this).

Documentation

The Oleo documentation is now also available online.

Downloading Oleo

Intermediate versions are available through anonymous CVS, and their source can be browsed online through the cvs-web interface. The complete sources to Oleo are in the GNU CVS server at subversions.gnu.org. You can read more about this on http://www.gnu.org/software/devel.html.

Mailing lists

These mailing list concern oleo:

bug-oleo@gnu.org for reporting (and reading about) bugs in oleo,
send mail to bug-oleo@gnu.org,
subscribe to bug-oleo (be sure to put the word subscribe in your subject line).

The GNU mailing lists maintain archives of the messages sent to it. The archives can be queried by E-mails whose subject starts with the word archive. By sending a message with subject archive help to bug-oleo-request@gnu.org you will ask the server to send you a message with instructions for working with the archive server.

We recommend that you also send a message with the subject archive ls latest as "latest" is the name of a directory.

Our TODO and ChangeLog files are now web-accessible : TODO , ChangeLog .

Please note that LessTif is a freely available replacement for OSF/Motif. LessTif is licensed by the GNU LGPL and can be obtained from www.lesstif.org.

Getting involved

Development of Oleo, and GNU in general, is a volunteer effort, and you can contribute. For information, please read How to help GNU. If you'd like to get involved, it's a good idea to join the discussion mailing list (see above).

Development: For development sources, bug and patch trackers, and other information, please see the Oleo project page at savannah.gnu.org.
Maintainer: Oleo is currently being maintained by Delyan Raychev (delqn.com). Please use the mailing lists for contact.

Licensing

Oleo is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.