Bug#887985: jdbc

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 02:23:35PM +0100, Elmar Dolgener wrote:
>    While direct connectors and odbc currently don't work, jdbc remains as a
>    last resort.

Can you spare this bug which is about the mysql connector with this
info? It's not related to this bug and besides that it#'s bad advice.
See below.

>    For all companions in misfuture, as there are many details to miss a
>    successful setup, a short summary:

Sorry, those steps are hilarious.

>    1) apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

Debian contains the JDK. No need for oracle-java8-installer

>    2) Download "mariadb mariadb-connector-j" from
>    [1]https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/about-mariadb-connector-j/

Debian contains libmysql-java which is the same for MySQL.
(https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libmysql-java)
and as that client should be able to connect to MariaDB databases...

>    3) Run LibreOffice (Base or any other module): open
>    Tools/Options/LibreOffice/Advanced/Class Path;
>    4) Add "/your/path/to/mariadb-java-client-2.2.1.jar" (from step 2) as
>    "file" to the classpath,

... and that one should get picked up automatically if installed.
(see
https://salsa.debian.org/libreoffice-team/libreoffice/libreoffice/blob/master/patches/jdbc-driver-classpaths.diff)

Regards,

Rene