Hi :) Thanks :) and thanks for the warning note too! :) Regards from Tom :)
--- On Mon, 24/10/11, Alexander Thurgood <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Alexander Thurgood <[email protected]> > Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Update to MySQL Native Connector for Linux > 32bit > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, 24 October, 2011, 15:30 > Le 24/10/11 15:31, Tom Davies a > écrit : > > Hi :) > > Great stuff. Good work :) So it's there > for Mac OS X and Linux 32bit. I take it thattit > doesn't matter whether normal installs are done via .deb or > .rpm as the oxt bypasses both methoods? > > Thanks Alex > > Hi Tom, > It is neither a deb nor a rpm, the only thing missing, I > now realise, is > that the damn extensions site doesn't put the file > extension OXT on the > download link, so the file downloads as what appears to be > a tarball or > an unknown zipped archive (which it is, but of a particular > kind). This > is a bug with the extensions site not recognising the file > extension on > upload. > > Just add .oxt to the file name then open up LibreOffice, go > to the > extensions manager and install it from there like any other > extension. > You may even be lucky enough for your system to recognise > the mimetype > automatically and startup the Extensions Manager dialogue > when you > double-click the connector extension file. > > > One word of warning though : if you already have the > connector installed > on your system via a RPM/DEB or just as an OXT downloaded > from the Sun > extensions site, you're probably better off removing it > before > attempting to install the version I have made available. > > > > Alex > > > > > > > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions 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/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived > and cannot be deleted > -- For unsubscribe instructions 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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
