2010/3/12 Yachoved <[email protected]>: > I'm new to Openoffice software and would like to create a database, but can't > find how to do this in Openoffice. I'm not sure I have the latest version. > The version I am using is 2.4.1. The problem I'm having is I don't know > what type or version of Linux I'm using, ie 32.bit DEB, 64.bit RPM or 64.bit > DEB and I can't seem to find out where to look for it. >
What Linux distribution do you use? You can see that on the logo when you start up your computer. Here are a few popular distros: Ubuntu Fedora OpenSUSE Mandriva Mint Debian RedHat PCLinuxOS Puppy The most popular one seems to be Ubuntu since a few years back, and I personally use it since summer 2007. If you have Ubuntu and upgrade it to the latest stable version, your OpenOffice.org will automatically be upgraded to one of the latest versions, I think 3.1.1 or something like that. It's not the absolute latest OpenOffice.org version, but it's certainly many years later than the very old 2.4.1. You can also uninstall your current OpenOffice.org version and install the newest one from http://www.openoffice.org/. If you distro's desktop environment is Gnome, you can click System → Administration → System monitor → System (or something like that, I have the Swedish version of Ubuntu 9.10…) to see what version of what distro you have. If you have KDE, or anything else but Gnome, I don't know, but maybe someone else does. There are several advantages to use the latest OpenOffice.org version. Among those there is speed - they did a lot of work increasing speed since 3.something and the old 2.4.1 was very slow and a real pain. Since I don't work with databases myself I can not answer your actual question, but I would try to New document → Database (or something like that - again I use the Swedish version…) and try to navigate from there. > As you might have guessed, I'm totally new to using Linux, but I like it. I > am using it on a laptop I purchased from a friend. He partitioned the drive > so I could use both Windows as a operating system and try Linux. That worked > wonderful until the Windows side became infected with a virus and now I can't > even get onto that side. > > I know this is long and you have millions of emails to read, but I really > need to use the database portion of Openoffice but I can't find it in my > system. I would really like to get it started soon, so if possible could > someone please get back to me on this matter? No, there are no millions of emails. We are all OpenOffice.org users like you who help each other out, nothing more, nothing less, so every question you ask gets forwarded to all the OpenOffice.org users that are subscribed to this list. If you are subscribed you will also receive other peoples questions and you can answer those if you like. The more you use OpenOffice.org the more you learn and the more likely that you know the answers of other peoples questions and then you can help other people in this list if you want to. That's kind of how it works here. Regards Johnny Rosenberg > > Thanks you, > > Johnnie T. aka Yachoved > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
