Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: No database option

Hi :)
Yeh, it surprised me too.  In Windows i think the whole suite gets
installed but in Gnu&Linux it's a bit more fine-grained.  I think the
Windows version really needs to keep it all as simple as possible but in
Gnu&Linux it's more likely that users are a bit more expert at using
computers and can cope with oddities like that or at least are less scared
of asking questions!  Perhaps also Windows users tend to be on higher-spec
machines or at least very unlikely to be attempting to work on some
extremely low spec thing and or desperately streamlining everything for
other reasons.
Regards from
Tom :)



On 30 July 2014 18:34, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes@comcast.net> wrote:

> On 07/30/2014 11:51 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
>
> > Hi :)
> > You might need to install Base.  I think it's the only module that can be
> > installed separately on Gnu&Linux systems.  So something like
> >
> > sudo apt-get install libreoffice-base
> >
> > should do the trick on a distro from the debian-family.  Please let us
> > know
> > how this goes!
> > Good luck and regards form
> > Tom :)
> Just checked with Ubuntu's package manager and Base was in fact not
> installed.  Used it to install Base and now the option appears so I should
> be able to proceed. Sort of surprised as I thought the entire suite had
> been installed.
>
> Thanks Tom
>
> Regards,  Jim
>
>  On 30 July 2014 17:30, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes@comcast.net> wrote:
> >  Using LibreOffice 3.5.7.2 on Ubuntu 12.04.
> > > I am working with a ooBasic tutorial. It says to choose
> > > File-->New-->Database to create a new database.  The problem is there is
> > > no
> > > Database item on that drop down menu.  Also, on the opening screen the
> > > Database entry is grayed out.
> > >
> > > I actually have a database on my system that I was experimenting with a
> > > couple of years ago. If I go to Tools-->Options-->LibreOffice-
> > > ->Databases
> > > it shows there but I can't open it.
> > >
> > > Anyone have any idea of what could be wrong and how to enable databases
> > > again?
> > >
> > > Thanks, Jim
> > >
> > >
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