Re: [libreoffice-users] How get LibreO-Base working?

On 01/31/2012 05:35 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :
> i would go with Andreas' suggestion.  An external back-end but finding a small non-Java-dependant 
> one might be tricky.  MySql and it's fork (successor?) MariaDb are probably too heavy.  Is 
> Postgresql better for smaller databases?
A small database back-end that might be suitable is SQLite. Personally I 
prefer MySQL/MariaDB over Postgresql because more third-party 
documentation is available and I think Postgresql is heavier.
> If you have to have java then the best one seems to be 6u21.  If you can get it all working with a 
> newer version then great but past the 6u24 they seem to cause increasing problems.  I was really 
> hoping that 3.5.x would allow people to use java 7.  I didn't realise there was already an 8!!  Has 
> 7 already been found to have serious security issues?
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
> --- On Tue, 31/1/12, Pertti Rönnberg<ptjr@elisanet.fi>  wrote:
>
> From: Pertti Rönnberg<ptjr@elisanet.fi>
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] How get LibreO-Base working?
> To: "Users LibreOffice"<users@global.libreoffice.org>
> Date: Tuesday, 31 January, 2012, 18:31
>
> Dear Ladies and Gentlemen  out there.
> I am confused -- can you help  me? I recently installed LibreOffice-v3.4.5 after beeing a happy OO-user in many many years. I now 
> need to make a couple of relational databases (subforms&-reports) and decided to try LibreO's Base. On my main-PC (AMD Athlon II 
> X3 445, Win7Prof/32bit) the LO's Base caused the program to stop (Write&Calc work OK). I uninstalled LO, removed folders via 
> WinExplorer, rebooted, installed LOv3.4.5 again and when asked for a new JRE I tried to understand the instructions found and first 
> installed JRE8 (jre-8-ea-bin-b21-windows-i586-13_jan_2012.exe) and then JRE7 (jre-7u2-windows-i586.exe) and loaded both as 
> instructed into LO (LO-page: tools/options/LibreOffice/java). Now LO didn't stop but neither of the JREs seem to be sufficient 
> /"LibreO requires a JRE to perform this task. The selected JRE is defective. Please select and install a new JRE/" and 
> then "/connection to datasource ("db-name") could not be established -- no Java
>   installation could be found; check installation/". I did my best several times.
> Note. After doing exactly same install process on my laptop (Win7Prem/64bit) the LO(64bit), Base 
> included, works fine.
> Did I do something wrong, wrong versions, is it the 32bit make of LO or the LO-Base itself, is the 
> JRE(32bit) wrong, -- or what? I like the graphical interface but I don't want to go back to OO and 
> I don't want to buy a MSAccess, and for my simple needs a MySQL/PHP/Apache seems too heavy to learn.
> Thanks in advance.
> Pepe Rönnberg (Finland)
>
>
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