Heinrich, On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 08:15 +0200, Heinrich Stoellinger wrote:
> Hi Tom, > Just my - maybe naive - 2 pennies worth of comments: > As I mentioned before, I have been using OO/LO for years together with > BASE with MySQL (which - also "sigh") now "belongs" to Oracle as well. > As a connector to the DB I have tried out the Java version (always had > trouble with it one way or the other!) as well as ODBC/UNIXODBC (which > is what I am now using under Linux and which works sort of!). With > MySQL there is also the native connector which I would actually prefer > to use - but, yes you guess right - does NOT work on either LO 3.3.3 or > 3.4.1 under Linux. A bit confusing, isn't it! > I am not giving up hope yet for LO 3.4.2 - especially since it targets > business... > Isn't there a OpenSource fork of MySQL called MariaDB?!? > Regards > H MariaDB is an OSS fork of MySQL, it is available from the Ubuntu repositories, I assume Debian and other Linux distros. It apparently is only available for Linux and Windows, no Mac version listed on their downloads. Their homepage is > mariadb.org > > On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:19:26 +0200, Tom Cloyd <t...@tomcloyd.com> wrote: > > > Thanks, Andreas. > > > > To summarize what I learned from that second link: I need to install > > sun-java6-jre_6.22-0ubuntu1~10.04 into a directory of my choosing, then > > direct LO to use this special older version (which, it is reported, does > > not cause the awful slowdown we're experiencing). > > > > Look like a short-term solution I can live with. Give me hope that I get > > back to work, later today > > > > The long-term solution appears entirely opaque, however. Is the problem > > being reported to Oracle (who I presume is behind the latest sun-java > > updates). Is this an Oracle plot to blow OO and LO opensource dbs out of > > the water? > > > > Is there any hope we can cut this dependancy upon a java version that is > > now associated with Oracle? > > > > Sigh. > > > > Tom > > > > On 07/27/2011 02:26 AM, Andreas Säger wrote: > >> The Base documentation: > >> http://openoffice.org/projects/documentation/downloads/directory/Base/Mid%20level%20Base%20tutorial > >> > >> > >> My chrystal ball tells me that you run LibreOffice with a recent Java > >> version under Linux, therefore this is the solution to your problem: > >> http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=125253 > >> > >> > > > > > > > -- > Erstellt mit Operas revolutionärem E-Mail-Modul: http://www.opera.com/mail/ > -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
