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[Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>]

That's interesting.  At the time, OOo was seen as just not being capable of
handling the size of pivot we were talking about.   These loads are not
really what spreadsheets were designed for.  So I'm very interested to hear
things are looking a bit better with libreOffice.

On 19 February 2013 17:39, Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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