OpenOffice.org on SuSE 9.3 Pro crashing.

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2005, Bruce Marshall wrote:
>On Saturday 30 April 2005 09:22 am, Collins Richey wrote:
>> Just a wag based on my limited experience - this is probably a SuSE
>> flaw. I installed the 1.9.79-1 RPMS (the package is called OOo_2.0beta
>> direct from the OO download site) a couple of months ago on CentOS4 ~=
>> REHL4 ~= FC3, and it's been pretty much flawless except for one bug in
>> the brand spanking new Access-like database code.
>
>I think you're right....   People on the SuSE list with 9.3 have been 
>complaining about OO but I've used .79  and now .95  on 9.2 and it runs just 
>fine.  .79  has a few bugs and a security hole that .95 fixes in case you're 
>interested.

I finally gave up on the SuSE version today after being unable to
create data sources using jdbc to connect to mysql and postgresql
databases from the spread sheet application.  I loaded the 1.1.4
stable version, installed it under the default /usr/local, and it
seems to work OK.

Bill
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