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Date:      Wed, 31 Oct 2018 05:24:40 +0100
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        Manish Jain <jude.obscure@yandex.com>
Cc:        =?UTF-8?B?VMSzbA==?= Coosemans <tijl@freebsd.org>, gabor@zahemszky.hu, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How can we use LibreOffice Base pkg?
Message-ID:  <20181031052440.e669a92a.freebsd@edvax.de>
In-Reply-To: <db25dc1e-2352-4d2a-807f-4c694830ff35@yandex.com>
References:  <3fcd0b75bd78cdc1f61faa5a8358824d@zahemszky.hu> <a58138b1581fc0067d517f49fa1fd96a@zahemszky.hu> <20181030224900.39543025@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <db25dc1e-2352-4d2a-807f-4c694830ff35@yandex.com>

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On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 05:08:17 +0530, Manish Jain wrote:
> On 10/31/18 03:19, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 20:23:53 +0100 gabor@zahemszky.hu wrote:
> >> It's great. But my question is: how can I create a database with LO
> >> Base.
> >> Under Linux (and maybe under Windows), HSQLDB is the built-in database
> >> in LO. And from LO Base, I can create a new "internal" DB (using
> >> HSQLDB).
> >> But I cannot create it under FreeBSD. I have LO installed. I tried to
> >> create database, but I could not. Please try it!
> > 
> > You probably have to build libreoffice yourself with the JAVA option
> > enabled.  The binary package doesn't have it enabled.
> 
> 
> Hi Tijl/others,
> 
> I use LO myself occasionally, and I used to wonder why its Base was 
> totally unworkable under FreeBSD.
> 
> Now that you point out that, for Base to work, LO has to be built from 
> ports with JAVA on, it raises the question why the package has JAVA 
> support off.

It is possible that licensing issues prevent packaging JAVA
with the default install... *cough* Oracle! *cough* ;-)



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Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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