Changing from Windows Xp to Ubuntu

[Jim Byrnes]

On 08/11/2014 08:01 PM, Peter Goggin wrote:
> I have successfully transferred Thunderbird and various excel
> spreadsheets and word documents from XP windows on one laptop to Ubuntu
> on another laptop. The MS documents all work fine with LibreOffice..
>
> I have tried converting the MS Access data base to LibreOffice Base. I
> installed LibreOffice on the XP machine and then opened the MS Access
> data base. I saved and then reopened the native LibreBase data base . I
> found the following:
> 1 All tables transferred correctly
> 2. All views (there are about 20 used in the application ) transferred
> as tables (at least they sit in the tables area)
> 3. While LibreBase appears to have a gui front end built in none of the
> forms transferred across.
>
> I can probably recreate the forms in LibreBase but I cannot find any
> information on creating  a menu form which allows navigation around the
> data base. I looked in the documentation for LibreBase but could not
> find any information. Is it possible to create such forms?
>
> Is it possible to transfer Access views to LibreBase views?

I don't know, but there is a user forum for LibreOffice and someone on 
it would probably know.

I access it through gmane.

news://news.gmane.org:119/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.user

but  I think there is a link to subscribe to it on the LibreOffice web site.

> Many years ago while I was working as a database manager on Oracle I
> created a web based application using Mysql, Php and Html. It is so long
> ago that I have forgotten some of the details, but the system ran on Red
> hat Linux and could be accessed via a normal web browser. I believe that
> I used Apache as a local server.  Is this approach still viable?  I
> could not find Apache in the software library so I wondered if it was
> still available.

I don't know what version of Ubuntu you are running, but it is available 
on 12.04.  Yes that approach is viable.  I have Apache set up on my 
desktop machine along with MySql which I can access with Firefox using a 
combination of php, javascript and html.

Regards,  Jim