Hi Guys,
Another option if you are migrating from windows is to establish a
VirtualBox that runs Windows and install Office on this. You can also do
this on VMWare, although I find VirtualBox a lot faster.
The Windows Platform on the VM have samba shares mapped as network
drives and they are blissfully unaware that the data being accessed are
on my Ubuntu filesystem. Data can be readily manipulated in a Microsoft
Windows package and Linux-based package at practically the same time.
VMWare also provides tools to bundle your windows box into virtual
machine, although I found this carried over too much 'baggage'. I just
created an empty VM using VirtualBox and reinstalled Windows and Office.
On 05/08/11 00:14, Don C. Myers wrote:
Hi Roberto,
Access will not run natively in Linux. I run Ubuntu 11.04 presently. I
was a windows user when I switched to Base. One reason for switching was
I knew someday I wanted to migrate to Linux. It was very easy since
OpenOffice worked in both platforms. I run Quicken and Dreamweaver
through Wine on Ubuntu. You may need to move up to Crossover Office, but
it would be likely some version of Access would work. I have not
researched this though. In general, some versions of Microsoft Office do
work with Crossover Office.
Don
On 08/04/2011 10:04 AM, Roberto Scotti wrote:
Yes, it may be. I am working on Ububntu based systems.
Is it possible to install MS-Access and/or SQLite native-drivers in
Linux?
Many thanks, Roberto Scotti
PS - I added your address in CC to be shure you would get the message,
if thi causes doubling your messages please let me know.
Il giorno gio, 04/08/2011 alle 10.26 +0200, Cor Nouws ha scritto:
Hi Roberto,
Roberto Scotti wrote (04-08-11 10:19)
When I open Base if I choose to "connect to an existing database" the
list of available drivers doesn't include MS Access (or JET), it
includes only:
...
That connection is Windows only.
Does this explain what you see on your computer?
Regards,
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