Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Update to MySQL Native Connector for Linux 32bit

Hi :)
Thanks :) and thanks for the warning note too! :)
Regards from
Tom :)

--- On Mon, 24/10/11, Alexander Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Alexander Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com>
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Update to MySQL Native Connector for Linux 32bit
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> 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
>
> >
>
>
>
>
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