On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 3:51 AM, Richard Melville <richard.melvill...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 7 November 2016 at 21:57, Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 10:38:22AM -0500, Wayne Sallee wrote: >>> I'm getting the error "No /SDBC driver/ was found for the URL >>> 'sdbc:embedded:hsqldb' " Wen I try to open a database. >>> >>> Internet search says to enable "use java runtime environment". But this is >>> greyed out, so I can't enable it. >>> >>> I checked the install, and see that BLFS instructions installs with " >>> --without-java ". >>> >>> Anyone using LibreOffice Base on lfs? >>> >>> Wayne Sallee >> >> I don't use base, but google found slightly different information for >> me - probably because it tailors the search results based on what >> it knows I've searched for. >> >> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=202964 #2 suggests a jre >> and then enabling it. I suspect that you might need to rebuild LO >> without that swi tch to enable it, and possibly also enable the >> odk. Maybe need extra deps for each of those. >> >> But at least LO has active developers, unlike OpenOffice which you >> also asked about, where issuing vulnerability fixes recently took a >> very long time, and where retiring it was suggested. > > That's because when Sun Microsystems (complete with OpenOffice) was > taken over by Oracle most of the key OpenOffice developers, as a > protest, left the clutches of Oracle and created LibreOffice. Since > Oracle handed OpenOffice to the Apache Foundation it has been slowly > dying. Best to stick with LibreOffice.
I've been happy with AbiWord and Gnumeric, so I haven't bothered with LibreOffice for a while. But I'm not dependent on MS PowerPoint, Access, Visio, Project, etc. Just give me a word processor, a spreadsheet program, and Gimp, and I'm set. Oh and Evince for pdf files and Ristretto for easy viewing of image files. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
