[KLUG Members] Address book software?

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > > > > I know it can be done with Postgresql/UnixODBC/OpenOffice
> > > > > but that sounds like a pain for something this simple.
> > > > > A text file backend would be fine since we're talking less
> > > > > than 100 names & addresses.   Suggestions?
> > > > OpenOffice, or OpenOffice+evolution if your integration is working.
> > > Are you saying that the Evolution 2.0 address book can be a 
> > > datasource for OpenOffice? (running stock SuSE 9.2 pro)  
> > > What's it take to get that connection working?
> > It works for me, in fact it was that way by default.
> > The bibliography database is set to a source of "sdbc:address:evolution"
> > which has a table named "Personal" which is the default local address
> > book.  Just go "View\Data Sources"
> That's weird, it's not there in mine.  In fact I can't even add
> evolution as a data source.  The data type is not one of the options.
> I wonder if there is some RPM I'm missing ...

awilliam at laptop01:~> rpm -qa | grep -i openoffice
OpenOffice_org-en-help-1.1.3-16
OpenOffice_org-kde-1.1.3-16
OpenOffice_org-Quickstarter-1.0-465
OpenOffice_org-gnome-1.1.3-16
OpenOffice_org-1.1.3-16
OpenOffice_org-en-1.1.3-16
awilliam at laptop01:~> rpm -qa | grep -i evolution
evolution-devel-2.0.1-6
evolution-data-server-1.0.1-7
multisync-evolution-0.82-7.2
evolution-2.0.1-6
awilliam at laptop01:~> rpm -ql OpenOffice_org-gnome
/usr/lib/ooo-1.1
/usr/lib/ooo-1.1/program
/usr/lib/ooo-1.1/program/libevoab2.so    <<<<<------------
/usr/lib/ooo-1.1/program/libfps_gnome.so
/usr/lib/ooo-1.1/program/libvclplug_gtk645li.so
awilliam at laptop01:~>