On 5/2/22 05:12, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 5/2/22 08:03, Kenneth Marcy wrote:
On 5/1/22 19:54, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 5/1/22 22:01, Dave Stevens wrote:
On Sun, 1 May 2022 21:31:06 -0400
Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I want to create an Access Database on my F35 system so my wife can
also use it on her Windows system using Access.
So I did a quick bit of googling and found that maybe LibreOffice
Base is what I want.
So I did:
dnf install libreoffice-base
which worked, and then tried launching it and
nothing...
Any hints on getting this running?
Yes. You need to install all of LibreOffice so you can achieve
interaction between LO Calc and LO Base.
I have, I think, all of LibreOffice installed. I use Write, Calc, and
Impress on a regular basis. Interesting that Base is not installed
when you do your Fedora Install and select to install the LIbreOffice
Office suite.
I am under the impression that the standard LibreOffice installation
does install all of the modules. When I go to the menu application in
this Linux distribution, it lists office as one line item. Sliding the
mouse over that item expands it to a list of many items, the top five of
which are LilbreOffice, then LibreOffice Write, Calc, Impress and Draw,
in that order. LIbreOffice Base is not listed. However, if I choose to
launch the first item, LibreOffice, without a specific application
mentioned, LO opens to show an area of recent documents icons on the
right, and a list of six applications, including Math Formulas and Base
database, on the left. Clicking on Base opens a wizard that allows me
to either create a new database, open an existing database in this
machine, or connect to another database on another machine. After
choosing, for example, to create a new database, another screen appears
offering whether or not to register the database with LO, and whether to
save the database for editing to create tables using the table wizard.
Clicking Finish opens the Base application for work on the open file.
No command lines are involved in this process.
I suggest you check your machine's application menu for a LibreOffice
item that does not mention a specific application, then open that to see
if the Base application is listed. If it is, the proceed as above from
there. If it is not, I suggest you update all of LO to the latest
version, either from Fedora, or the LibreOffice web site.
LO Calc has the ability to import and export comma separated files
(.CSV) and dBase files (.DBF).
I have done .CSV.
Your wife's Access system can export one of the importable file
formats to work in LO Base, and then import from Access through LO
Calc in a format that LO Calc is able to import and then provide to
LO Base to use.
LO Base does not appear to have the ability to directly import and
export the native Access file format, but it can send and receive
appropriately formatted table files.
Humph. This may take rethinking, as I will be expected to 'help' at
times, and I can't keep importing and exporting.
Perhaps the rethinking will involve a virtual machine on your hardware
within which is running Windows and Access, and appropriate network
access between your and your wife's machine.
Ken
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