John Pettigrew wrote:
In a previous message, peter Nikolic
wrote: how about a data base that does not require an degree in database management to get it to work .. is that too much to ask ,
Install MySQL or PostgreSQL and also install Rekall. Using Rekall makes it a doddle. You don't need to know anything at all about how the back end works - Rekall does it all in the GUI. It gives you an Access- or FileMakerPro-like way of working with the DBMS.
The only things you need to be careful of are that you install the right conduit for Rekall (each database engine has its own conduit, which SUSE have packages as separate RPMs) and that you set the DBMS running using YaST's runlevel editor. Each DBMS probably needs a little configuring first, but MySQL (at least) gives you explicit instructions of what to do when you install it.
John
How about putting two of these suggestions together. Install Rekall and Rekall-xbase (the conduit). Then just run Rekall and have fun. The xbase conduit uses no database server at all. This would not be good for a large and/or complicated dataset, however, for a small personal database it works right out of the box. FWIW, I just tried this for the first time myself. I prefer MySQL and phpMyAdmin, but this seems to fit the bill for the OP. Louis