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[Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>]

For the future... I have been working a bit with LibreOffice pivot tables
lately, they are more flexible now than under OO and has a capacity per
spreadsheet of 1 mill records. It would be interesting to see how a
myDatamart + LibreOffice pivot table setup on Ubuntu could have worked out.






On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> You can actually run a linux mydatamart binary on ubuntu though I've not
> even done that myself for a while as the purpose of the program is to
> provide a way of working with your data and MS Excel (for which you really
> require windoze).  The mydatamart binary will also run on linux under wine,
> but again fairly pointless without excel.
>
> I agree with Mark ... virtualbox is probably the best solution for running
> excel on linux.  And run mydatamart on the same box.
>
> Bob
>
> On 19 February 2013 16:46, Mark Spohr <mhspohr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> MyDataMart.exe is a Windows exe file.
>> In order to run this on Linux or Mac, you'll need to install Windows.
>>  This can be easily done using VirtualBox (free software) which sets up a
>> virtual machine.  You install Windows (I use a stripped down WindowsXP
>> called "TinyXP" which works fine) on the VM and run MyDataMart under
>> Windows.
>> I've done this on both Mac and Linux and it works well.
>> In order to use some of the advanced spreadsheet export options, you'll
>> need to also install Microsoft Excel under Windows since
>> OpenOffice/LibreOffice don't support some of the odder Microsoft tricks.
>> MyDataMart makes a sql .dmart file which you can move to your Linux file
>> system.  I usually just access this directly with something like sqlite.
>> I've done this on both Mac and Ubuntu and works well.
>>
>> .Mark
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:59 AM, Stephen Gbanyan <mambu9@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop and I want to use mydatamart
>>> on this computer.  Can someone help me through the process if that is
>>> possible?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
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