Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: base error - no SDBC drive

2014-07-23 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Similarly DocX promises to be cross-platform and able to be used by any relevant program. So did Rtf. Whenever these things are in the hands of single profit-making companies they don't seem to live up to promises or expectations. Ownership through a committee of a large number of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: base error - no SDBC drive

2014-07-19 Thread Jim Seymour
On Fri, 18 Jul 2014 09:16:49 +0100 Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Oddly i still see a LOT of job adverts for programmers who can write Java. I'm hoping that is to help companies migrate away or to re-write existing java packages! [snip] How sad :( Java had such great promise.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: base error - no SDBC drive

2014-07-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The 1.6.0_31xx is the old branch of Java and has known issues out in the wild. Oracle keep insisting that people upgrade to their newest version of Java because all previous ones have been compromised. Often they don't even release some versions because each one gets compromised so

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: base error - no SDBC drive

2014-07-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Using an external back-end might get around the Java issue. MySql/MariaDb and Postgresql don't need java do they? Also the internal HsqlDb back-end is being swapped out to be replaced by Firebird as the internal back-end. If that does work then maybe the reliance on Java will be over.

[libreoffice-users] Re: base error - no SDBC drive

2014-07-16 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 16/07/2014 13:17, Tom Davies a écrit : Using an external back-end might get around the Java issue. MySql/MariaDb and Postgresql don't need java do they? No, using an external backend does not get around the Java issue, if you want to use the built-in Pentaho LO report builder - this is all

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: base error - no SDBC drive

2014-07-16 Thread Tom Cloyd
On 07/08/2014 01:21 PM, Alexander Thurgood wrote: /No SDBC driver was found for the URL 'sdbc:embedded:hsqldb/ Well, nuts. Problem solved: * I just needed to go to Settings LibreOffice Advanced, and enable my installed Sun java runtime 1.6.0_31.* I had it turned off, on the premise (read

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: base error - no SDBC drive

2014-07-15 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi Tom, Le 16/07/2014 04:28, Tom Cloyd a écrit : I had it turned off, on the premise (read on the LO list a while back) that if you didn't need it it was likely to cause problems needlessly. It appears to be need for Base, at least for the hsqldb. I see that this problem is a recurrent one,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: base error - no SDBC drive

2014-07-15 Thread Tom Cloyd
Alex, I've just installed LO Version: 4.2.5.2. On two different boxes I'm getting the same error as before when I try to open a db form or table. I'm NOT installing from the packages, but from the *.deb download at the LO website. So, your idea no longer makes a lot of sense to me. I've

[libreoffice-users] Re: base error - no SDBC drive

2014-07-08 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 06/07/2014 20:08, Tom Cloyd a écrit : Hi Tom, Build ID: 14ed55896fdfcb93ff437b85c4f3e1923d2b1409, on Kubuntu Linux 14.04. Check to see whether all of the LO components are installed. By default, 14.04 doesn't install the Base module and additional components. Alex -- To unsubscribe