OpenOffice.org2.0 database application

[Sean Kennedy]

What is going to be done in Ubuntu about OOo Base needing Java?

Is anyone working on getting it to compile using gcj the way Red Hat
did eclipse?

That may be the best solution.

Sean


On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:13:20 +0100, Teófilo Ruiz Suárez <teo at debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 11:58:36AM +0100, Miguel Angel Zarza wrote:
> > >Well before OOo2 was in ubuntus repositories I built it myself by
> > >converting the RPMs from the site. They installed fine(ish) and
> > >OpenOffice.Org Base was there as a standalone launcher. I think that
> > >Celso migh be right in that it is not there as it uses Java. If you
> > >lauch it yourself from Writer - I imageine it will work if you have
> > >installed java yourself and fail if you have not. who packages OOo2?
> > >The database app really needs to work for the final version as it will
> > >be one of the major highlight features of OOo2, people will see that
> > >it doesnt work in ubuntu and simply go elsewhere.... that said - I
> > >understand the limitations as to the licencing of java.. tricky one
> >
> > It works, at least, if you have java installed it works.
> >
> > I know because i tried it yesterday, and i played a little with OOBase
> > (very unstable and incomplete).
> 
> That's right, it's already installed but not as a different package. It works
> but I think that it's not working at its best.
> 
> Anyway, I've got Java installed but in the Options Menu, I can't set up a Java JRE
> environment. Did you have more luck with OOo and Java here?
> 
> Hm, I wonder if this is getting a bit Off-Topic...
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