On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 10:14 -0500, SOTL wrote:
> > I'm not too bright, but I was able to get Linux/Apache/MySQL running pretty
> > easily on Fedora Core 3, SuSE, and Debian Sarge. There must be something
> > basically different about our approaches, since our results are so
> > different.
>
> My object is not to get MySQL to work or Open Office to work; I have that.
> They as stand alone in Mandrake work quite well. In SuSE they do not and I
> have no desire to repair SuSE so that they do since I simply do not like
> SuSE.
>
> My objective is to take Open Office Data Base and connect it to a MySQL server
> which means ODBC and/or JDBC must work with MySQL. That means that MySQL and
> ODBC and/or JDBC must be compatible. For compatibility they must be the same
> version and compile which trying to use MySQL from one of the commercial
> distribution and ODBC and/or JDBC from the vendor are not compatable since
> they are different compiles plus there are possible other issues I haven't
> even discovered yet. Modifying and adding components to existing
> distributions is not the easiest thing to do for non techies.
SuSE 10 (paid version CompUSA $59) YaST --> Software Management -->
Search odbc returns 5 packages. 2 of which are installed already for me
from the 5 cd set.
unixODBC-2.2.11-2.i586.rpm:
unixODBC - ODBC driver manager with some drivers included
java-1_4_2-sun-jdbc-1.4.2.06-5.i586.rpm:
java-1_4_2-sun-jdbc - JDBC/ODBC bridge driver for java-1.4.2-sun
Search mysql returns 10.... 5 of which are already installed and 3 that
I'll list.
mysql-connector-java-3.1.12-0.pm.0.noarch.rpm:
mysql-connector-java - mysql jdbc driver
mysql-shared-4.1.13-3.i586.rpm:
mysql-shared - MySQL Shared Libraries
mysql-4.1.13-3.i586.rpm:
mysql - A true Multi-User, Multi-Threaded SQL Database Server
Would you look at that!! All the packages came with the distro (all
compatible) and I didn't have to do a damn thing!! Well, except check
the top level little box when I install that says "network server" and
"java". Now obviously a lot of stuff came with that but I have disk
space to burn. Just do a base install, select these few later in
software management and you will fore go all the other network server
stuff.
> >
> > I install strictly off of CDs. That is, I download the entire 5 (or so)
> > ISOs. I wonder if that makes a difference. I purchased my first good
> > distro, SuSE 9.1, and it was pretty painless.
>
Note: OpenSuSE is not the same as what you buy off the shelf. It's
missing everything Sun (Java) and Adobe And Macromedia and such as they
are not completely open source which is the goal of OpenSuSE. The store
bought version can include such things.
> There has been a big chance in the Commercial Linux world since SuSE 9.1.
> Namely SuSE has gong bankrupt in all but name and been acquired by Novel who
> is in a major fight with The SCO Group over ownership et of Linux for details
> see Groklaw.
And Novell has done a damn good job of making it better and pumping
money into it including advertising and MAJOR improvements.
> Give up hell. I have been working on this now since the Red Hat 5.3 days and I
> am still bitching over the exact same issue now that I was then with
> commercial linux.
>
No Comment.
Mike Branda Jr.
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