Status of spreadsheet support in IO package for Octave
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This package provides support for reading Excel (XLS, XLSX) and OpenDocument
(ODS) spreadsheet files from Octave.

If you installed the packages recommended by octave-io, the following
interfaces should already be functional:

 * JExcelAPI (JXL): for reading and writing XLS files

 * LibreOffice (UNO): for reading and writing ODS, XLS, XLSX, SXC, CSV and any
   other file format supported by LibreOffice Calc

Note that the UNO interface is still experimental. It interacts with running
LibreOffice processes.

Other interfaces (Apache POI, OpenXLS, ODF Toolkit, JOpenDocument) are not
available in Debian because they are either not yet packaged or non-free
(e.g. the poi-ooxml JAR has been removed from libapache-poi-java package since
it depends on non-DFSG-free software).

You can still manually download and install the corresponding JARs in
/usr/local/share/java, they should be autodetected. The chk_spreadsheet_support
function can help you diagnose problems if any.

More information on spreadsheet support can be found in READ-XLS.html and
READ-ODS.html.

 -- Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org>, Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:29:08 +0200