Re: [SLUG] MySQL DB Connection

From: SOTL (sotl155360@earthlink.net)
Date: Sat Mar 19 2005 - 10:33:59 EST


On Saturday 19 March 2005 08:49, Kwan Lowe wrote:
> SOTL wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > Well I have ascertained that the principal reason that I am unable to
> > connect to a DB using OO is that Java is not installed in OO. Java is
> > installed on the computer but the OO-1.9 installation did not recognize
> > this so now the first issue is how does one install Java into OO.
> >
> > Since there is a principal reason there must by necessity be as least one
> > more reason which I am sorry to say is another installation issue of
> > software into OO. It also appears that even though there are drivers for
> > JDBC installed in OO-1.1 which is also installed on this box that OO-1.9
> > does not recognize these drivers existence so again the question is how
> > does one go about installing these drivers into OO.
>
> Are you using a prepackaged OpenOffice RPM? If so, the easiest thing is
> to download the package from OpenOffice.org itself. If you prefer the
> RPM, there's some significant rebuild that you need to do.

Well Yes I am using the RPMs for OO-1.9 which I downloaded directly from
OpenOffice. The RPMs for OO-1.1 came on my Mandrake 10.1 DVD disk.

Since you state that there is significant rebuild required could you be a bit
more specific.

Frank
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