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Subject: Re: Alternative To Microsoft Access
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 09:26:50 +0200
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On 4/29/2024 7:47 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 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.

I think the Java part is actually the included database. if you don't 
use that one then it still should be fine.