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01 June 2009

Dear google - "a driver is not registered for the url sdbc:postgresql"

I have an openoffice database project built around a postgresql database using the postgresql sdbc driver, Everything worked really well on my old machine. Why doesn't it work on the new one? Does the driver not work for openoffice 3? Is it a jaunty issue? I followed the instructions and read the f@#$*'ing manual! The error message is the title of this post - google doesn't give a fix, per se, and shows just a few hits, but reveals that it's a 32/64 bit issue. Well then. There appears to be a jaunty package, openoffice.org-sdbc-postgresql. Does that work in and of itself (after i uninstall the bad 32 bit one)? Nope. But executing ### dpkg -L openoffice.org-sdbc-postgresql | grep zip shows me where the file i need is, and executing ### unopkg add `dpkg -L openoffice.org-sdbc-postgresql | grep zip` installed it for me. Everything works - hoorah!

2 comments:

  1. Worked for me. If you solved this problem in June 2009, why was the help page not updated 18 months later? Grrr...

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  2. Good point. I just emailed the maintainer --

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