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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Alternative To Microsoft Access
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 05:47:10 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 29 Apr 2024 06:31:28 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Apr 2024 04:17:17 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
> <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> 
>>If anybody asks about an alternative to Microsoft Access, I think
>>SQLite used in combination with LibreOffice will give you a lot of
>>functionality, including comprehensive SQL support and scalability to
>>much larger databases.
> 
> But LibreOffice is dependent on Java, which seems to be deprecated in
> some circles.

I did have some LibreOffice Java stuff installed, so I did this

    dpkg -r liblibreoffice-java libreoffice-java-common libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb

and my LibreOffice Base access still works fine.