On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 22:22 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > On 14/06/11 22:14, Colin Law wrote: > > On 14 June 2011 22:10, Gordon Burgess-Parker<[email protected]> wrote: > >> I DO NOT BELIEVE THIS! > >> Ubuntu 11.04 and Libre Office 3.3.2. > >> the Ubuntu version of Libre Office will STILL NOT USE the Thunderbird > >> addressbook as an address data source! > >> > >> WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU CANONICAL? > >> WHY CANNOT YOU IMPLEMENT THIS VERY SIMPLE FUNCTION? > >> Why do those of us who don't like Evolution have to remove the > >> Ubuntu-supplied Office suite (and this has been going on for YEARS) and > >> replace it with the suite downloaded directly from the suite site? > > Could you provide a link to the bug report please? > > > > Thanks > > > > Colin > > > It's not a bug, it's the way Canonical add the Office suite to Ubuntu. > It's been going on for years with Open Office and now they've done the > same with LO... > If you use Evolution then OO (or LO I presume, I uninstall Evolution > because I never use it) will use the Evolution Addressbook but not > anything else. > If you uninstall the Canonical-supplied Office suite and install direct > from OO ot LO then the TBird addressbook can be used as a data source.
Have you tried to install the mozilla-libreoffice package after you install Thunderbird? Note that I don't use Thunderbird so don't know if it will fix your problem. Cheers, Bruno -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
