Re: [Evolution] interfacing witn openoffice

[Des Dougan <des DouganConsulting com>]

On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 23:07 +0200, J.L. Blom wrote:
> Des,
> That's interesting. In the reply from Ron he mentions that Debian has a
> separate package : "openoffice.org2-evolution" to give OOo2 access to
> Evolution. Apparently Suse 9.3 has it also. A quick googling around did
> found the Debian version but not any other. It may have another name but
> than it's the proverbial needle in a haystack!.
> Do you have a package like that?
> Joep

No, it doesn't. The SuSE RC has three files:

OpenOffice_org-gnome-1.9.125-4.1
OpenOffice_org-kde-1.9.125-4.1
OpenOffice_org-1.9.125-4.1

If you download from OpenOffice's site, there are more RPMs, including,
in a Desktop (I think) subdirectory, RPMs that add to the menu structure
for several different distros.


Des

> On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 10:12 -0700, Des Dougan wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 09:44 +0200, J.L. Blom wrote:
> > > Des,
> > > Thanks for your reply. It simply doesn't. In the window (Wizard-> Adress
> > > data source -> Other external data source (choice: Mozilla, LDAP, other)
> > > -> settings I can choose from many different choices (LDAP, Mozilla,
> > > dBase, Adabas, JDBC, MySQL, ODBC, Oracle, Spreadsheet, Text,
> > > Thunderbird) but no Evolution. I have posted the same question on the OO
> > > user-list but till now no response.Maybe I have to post in on the
> > > developers list. But If there is a method to export to MySQL my problem
> > > is also solved. But as I don't know the format of the contacts database
> > > in Evolution I cannot write an exporter (e.g. to comma-delimited
> > > text-file) and I don't know if one exists.
> > > You maybe have some ore information?
> >
> > I tried this later last night, using the OOo 2.0 release candidate, and
> > it found my Evo address book, and I was able to view addresses in
> > OpenOffice. I'm running Evo 2.2.1 on SuSE 9.3
> >
> > Des
> >
> > > On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 22:01 -0700, Des Dougan wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 17:09 +0200, J.L. Blom wrote:
> > > > > Can anybody tell me why evo 2.2.3 (my current version) doesn't interface
> > > > > with openoffice?
> > > > > Is it an openoffice thing or an evolution thing (as I saw that the
> > > > > format of the contacts database is changed from the format of 1.4 which
> > > > > worked with Oo 1.1)).
> > > > > In the "create database" window when choosing a database format
> > > > > Evolution is vanished. As it is very handy (as translating the Evolution
> > > > > database to a MySQL table is not easy (short of retyping everything!))
> > > > > to get your mail addresses (for letters) from Evolution.
> > > > > Has anybody a clue?
> > > > > Joep
> > > >
> > > > OpenOffice.org 2.0 is supposed to be able to handle Evo 2.x contacts,
> > > > but I haven't tested it myself.
> > > >
> > > > Des
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