Re: [libreoffice-users] Failure to connect LOBase client to Mariadb host server

Good morning, Robert!

I have tried to install an original LibreOffice version 26.2.2, but it
doesn't get a window (i.e. it seems to start but then nothing opens).
So I have to live with the OpenSUSE LibreOffice installation (without
access to my mariadb database). (I can get access via phpMyAdmin, but
then I haven't the conveniences of the LO office integration e.g.
Forms, Reports, GUI Queries, etc) 

Cheers
Harvey


On Thu, 2026-05-07 at 09:02 +0200, Robert Großkopf wrote:
> Hi Harvey,
>
> most of the packages, which are supported by Linux distributions,
> will 
> work well and will be better integrated than the packages of
> LibreOffice 
> directly. But: If you are using Base I would never use the packages
> the 
> Linux distribution will support.
>
> Example 1: Try Firebird in Linux distributions. The packages of any 
> distribution are very small. There is no Firebird 3 provided by 
> LibreOffice installed because they say: We could support Firebird 
> directly. But it won't work, because there are different versions.
> You 
> couldn't open a database file with Firebird, created by Ubuntu, with 
> LibreOffice on Windows. But you could create a working Base file with
> Firebird when using packages of LO.
>
> Example 2: Don't know if this works now, but for many years you
> couldn't 
> execute any report in Base with packages from Ubuntu or OpenSuSE. But
> Packages from LO will work well.
>
> On my system (OpenSUSE 15.6) is working MariaDB as server together
> with 
> LibreOffice Base (not the packages from OpenSUSE) very well with
> direct 
> connection.
>
> Conclusion: Write a bug to https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/index.cgi
> Might be it helps. Don't know why there is anybody who tries to do it
> better than packager from LibreOffice directly. Much to do for the 
> person and a bad result for users.
>
> Regards
>
> Robert
> -- 
> Homepage: https://www.familiegrosskopf.de/robert

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