Good morning, Robert! I have tried to install an original LibreOffice version 26.2.2, but it doesn't get a window (i.e. it seems to start but then nothing opens). So I have to live with the OpenSUSE LibreOffice installation (without access to my mariadb database). (I can get access via phpMyAdmin, but then I haven't the conveniences of the LO office integration e.g. Forms, Reports, GUI Queries, etc)
Cheers Harvey On Thu, 2026-05-07 at 09:02 +0200, Robert Großkopf wrote: > Hi Harvey, > > most of the packages, which are supported by Linux distributions, > will > work well and will be better integrated than the packages of > LibreOffice > directly. But: If you are using Base I would never use the packages > the > Linux distribution will support. > > Example 1: Try Firebird in Linux distributions. The packages of any > distribution are very small. There is no Firebird 3 provided by > LibreOffice installed because they say: We could support Firebird > directly. But it won't work, because there are different versions. > You > couldn't open a database file with Firebird, created by Ubuntu, with > LibreOffice on Windows. But you could create a working Base file with > Firebird when using packages of LO. > > Example 2: Don't know if this works now, but for many years you > couldn't > execute any report in Base with packages from Ubuntu or OpenSuSE. But > Packages from LO will work well. > > On my system (OpenSUSE 15.6) is working MariaDB as server together > with > LibreOffice Base (not the packages from OpenSUSE) very well with > direct > connection. > > Conclusion: Write a bug to https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/index.cgi > Might be it helps. Don't know why there is anybody who tries to do it > better than packager from LibreOffice directly. Much to do for the > person and a bad result for users. > > Regards > > Robert > -- > Homepage: https://www.familiegrosskopf.de/robert -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
