[libreoffice-users] Re: Older versions of LibreOffice

Am 07.08.2011 18:35, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:

> I meant 3.2.1, but had forgotten that that was OpenOffice. What I'm
> trying to do is establish when the inability to use an address data
> source (in Linux) was introduced. It seems from the thread that I

This is NOT a matter of version. You must never install the ppa versions 
from the Linux distributors. Since OOo 2.0 they mess up something in 
every version they recompile and they never integrate all the 
addressbook drivers for ideologic reasons.

I use to install the versions from http://libreoffice.org/ or 
http://openoffice.org respectively.
Currently I have 3.3.3 and 3.4.1 installed. When I call 
File>New>Database...
Connect to existing database I can choose from the following options:
JDBC
Oracle JDBC
Adabas
KDE Address Book
LDAP Address Book
SeaMonkey Address Book
Thunderbird Address Book
Spreadsheet
dBase
Text
MySQL
ODBC


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