-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello John, > > I suspect that the vast majority of ordinary users like me, who > use Linux as their OS, simply install LO from their distribution's > repositories, if it is not already installed as part of the base > install of their distribution. (As a side comment this will often > be an older version of LO - my version is 4.2 for instance in the > latest Linux Mint 17.1 install). Distributions aimed at non > technical users in particular tend not to include even the most up > to date 'stable' version.
The installation of the distribution is different to the installation you get when downloading the packages from LO-website. There are bugs reported for LO on Ubuntu, for LO on OpenSUSE - and nobody could see this buggy behavior by using the original packages of LO and other way around. Two examples, both from Base: Ubuntu-users reported bugs for the old report-generator. This report-generator your could not start to generate a new report, if you have installed packages of LO directly. It seems to be the default Ubuntu installs. You could only stard already created reports for this old generator. Best connection for MySQL/Maria-databases is the direct connection. There is an extension downloadable for MySQL/Maria-databases on the website of LO. OpenSUSE offers the extension directly with the first install of LO. If you open OpenSUSE-LO you could see the extension of the MySQL-driver is locked. Normal user couldn't delete this extension - - and the extension OpenSUSE offers doesn't work. I am able to install many versions here when using the install-instructions of GettingStarted. With all this versions I could connect to MariaDB directly and could start the Report-Builder. Everybody, who want to install the LO-version directly from LO has to know how to install it - and this isn't the version Ubunto or OpenSUSE supports. Regards Robert -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJVmCNoAAoJELDKYwaoS9AI60IP/1su8j5EZ7Ch1MvDLTIy4AyS x5ZoLYXtlbiAuk4CLOLZqm5I9FsxriGWqGmX575jC5rK8lRM2CnmCBBhbA1c6Cji ZrQWdfbejnUuNN8+NHYI8sk5Psmmi4OTYFc5dBgGpKfm8A8yJKgaozADYzVPhkTb W4/HPiBNQS5ZvWwpKhe2r7BgBnR0atzvoHK3R/fqou4Q9tR0/ikej1n7AIAlfd0g a+J9ztmG7UGPOOB4UKdbDU3MvHRpa+CRxZH2wtrwYQUoRE2Y2jf2nOcQ61msJ089 aaj8HzNi1TJXKe9zxs3zjyzV019ApBSDOMfHAL97NwKACIC0s8pz1ldPvfdHIf4s igOtd9KqvPnIhCZ8QkVxjM3eQQOe5Q6vsn18ZIIa8ggxr6kBnBZTuQhX8HgtMxRX 4zFS9P0mkrrAlMezUuJxKCkbmFN1vhs0LO6D1Nw31yeWMqEgNVCFhFGpU5xwGh74 BmvMajNsGhn5tDN8O6PVFiWuOuq/YsFD8M/LjWwX/WLSG2bFkZs/Z8qnxeJw0og/ JoegpXbtsC0Pm1afOPbHz/KouZzFrrpNGpONWpP/JKZbYo7rSL+jxcS7bUT5Rg7Y KiqYizjDvC1A6jyV4bsh1ba8iCnRAla2P3LyrI9mW6BQ8LaUKVPk+hngMCo55aPA Ailp/I+3Tzxn38Kzjjs/ =fL5J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] 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/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
