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Posted to dev@openoffice.apache.org by brian mullan <bm...@gmail.com> on 2012/05/21 19:48:15 UTC
how to install Apache OpenOffice 3.4 in headless server
http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html#notes
The above lets you download an Ubuntu, Debian etc installation.
However, at least for Ubuntu there seems to be a problem.
I have a headless server.
I've downloaded the Linux x86-64 DEB
http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html
But that will only install onto a server with a Desktop unless I'm missing
some information.
Once downloaded I do the following:
tar xvfz
Apache_OpenOffice_incubating_3.4.0_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz
which extracts everything to an ./en-US directory the en-US directory
contains several dozen .DEB files
dpkg -i <all the .deb files>
that will emit errors concerning gui/desktop requirements so it appeared to
me that those can only be installed on a server with a desktop and NOT on a
headless machine.
Maybe I missed some documentation but I know you can start openoffice in
headless mode once its installed BUT in this case how can you install it on
a headless machine in the first place?
Re: how to install Apache OpenOffice 3.4 in headless server
Posted by Ashok Hariharan <as...@parliaments.info>.
See this page :
http://code.google.com/p/bungeni-editor/wiki/RunningOpenOfficeInServerMode
Its for installing OOo 2.4 on a headless server (i wrote that page for
installing OOo on a vps deployment )... but I think the instructions
remain the same for OOo 3.0
Ashok
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:48 PM, brian mullan <bm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html#notes
>
> The above lets you download an Ubuntu, Debian etc installation.
>
> However, at least for Ubuntu there seems to be a problem.
>
> I have a headless server.
>
> I've downloaded the Linux x86-64 DEB
> http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html
>
> But that will only install onto a server with a Desktop unless I'm missing
> some information.
>
> Once downloaded I do the following:
>
> tar xvfz
> Apache_OpenOffice_incubating_3.4.0_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz
> which extracts everything to an ./en-US directory the en-US directory
> contains several dozen .DEB files
>
> dpkg -i <all the .deb files>
>
> that will emit errors concerning gui/desktop requirements so it appeared to
> me that those can only be installed on a server with a desktop and NOT on a
> headless machine.
>
> Maybe I missed some documentation but I know you can start openoffice in
> headless mode once its installed BUT in this case how can you install it on
> a headless machine in the first place?
Re: how to install Apache OpenOffice 3.4 in headless server
Posted by Zhe Liu <al...@gmail.com>.
Maybe you can try the following
dpkg -i --force-all <all.deb>
I guess installation dependencies can not resolved in headless mode.
2012/5/22 brian mullan <bm...@gmail.com>:
> http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html#notes
>
> The above lets you download an Ubuntu, Debian etc installation.
>
> However, at least for Ubuntu there seems to be a problem.
>
> I have a headless server.
>
> I've downloaded the Linux x86-64 DEB
> http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html
>
> But that will only install onto a server with a Desktop unless I'm missing
> some information.
>
> Once downloaded I do the following:
>
> tar xvfz
> Apache_OpenOffice_incubating_3.4.0_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz
> which extracts everything to an ./en-US directory the en-US directory
> contains several dozen .DEB files
>
> dpkg -i <all the .deb files>
>
> that will emit errors concerning gui/desktop requirements so it appeared to
> me that those can only be installed on a server with a desktop and NOT on a
> headless machine.
>
> Maybe I missed some documentation but I know you can start openoffice in
> headless mode once its installed BUT in this case how can you install it on
> a headless machine in the first place?
--
Best Regards
>From aliuzhe@gmail.com
Re: how to install Apache OpenOffice 3.4 in headless server
Posted by Herbert Duerr <hd...@apache.org>.
On 25.05.2012 10:52, Ji Yan wrote:
> [...]
>> I've downloaded the Linux x86-64 DEB
>> http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html
>>
>> But that will only install onto a server with a Desktop unless I'm missing
>> some information.
>>
>> Once downloaded I do the following:
>>
>> tar xvfz
>> Apache_OpenOffice_incubating_3.4.0_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz
>> which extracts everything to an ./en-US directory the en-US directory
>> contains several dozen .DEB files
>>
>> dpkg -i<all the .deb files>
>>
>> that will emit errors concerning gui/desktop requirements so it appeared to
>> me that those can only be installed on a server with a desktop and NOT on a
>> headless machine.
Some of the *deb files are for desktop integration and these have
desktop dependencies of course.
>> Maybe I missed some documentation but I know you can start openoffice in
>> headless mode once its installed BUT in this case how can you install it on
>> a headless machine in the first place?
That the package managers emits errors is a too general statement. Which
missing dependencies does it report? Leaving out the *deb files that
have missing dependencies would be an interesting experiment.
Herbert
Re: how to install Apache OpenOffice 3.4 in headless server
Posted by Ji Yan <ya...@gmail.com>.
Suppose you need to install GUI related package, that will let you use the
product.
2012/5/22 brian mullan <bm...@gmail.com>
> http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html#notes
>
> The above lets you download an Ubuntu, Debian etc installation.
>
> However, at least for Ubuntu there seems to be a problem.
>
> I have a headless server.
>
> I've downloaded the Linux x86-64 DEB
> http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html
>
> But that will only install onto a server with a Desktop unless I'm missing
> some information.
>
> Once downloaded I do the following:
>
> tar xvfz
> Apache_OpenOffice_incubating_3.4.0_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz
> which extracts everything to an ./en-US directory the en-US directory
> contains several dozen .DEB files
>
> dpkg -i <all the .deb files>
>
> that will emit errors concerning gui/desktop requirements so it appeared to
> me that those can only be installed on a server with a desktop and NOT on a
> headless machine.
>
> Maybe I missed some documentation but I know you can start openoffice in
> headless mode once its installed BUT in this case how can you install it on
> a headless machine in the first place?
>
--
Thanks & Best Regards, Yan Ji
Re: how to install Apache OpenOffice 3.4 in headless server
Posted by Armin Le Grand <Ar...@me.com>.
On 25.05.2012 04:52, bjcheny wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I guess it may still require graphics stuff like "X11"?
> I just search through openoffice's website with "headless" and seem to get
> some info helpful.
>
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Log_Mac_Meeting_November_21st_2007
>
> [2007-11-21 14:56:06]<PhilippL> ericb2: on the non X11 platforms no
> window will be opened, but the graphics system of the platform is of
> course still used.
> [2007-11-21 14:56:26]<PhilippL> ericb2: on X11 the headless plugin
> removes the need for that, too.
>
> I think it's unnecessary to require graphics things once you only ask for
> headless mode from openoffice.
You still have cases where you need to prepare graphics, e.g. when using
an exporter (main use of headless is file conversion) where the target
format does not know the needed data types. In those cases the data has
to be rendered to a bitmap and the bitmap gets exported. We have quite
some such cases, also the direct export as bitmap, of course. Font
rendering is also an aspect. I'm not the expert here, but it will not be
too easy.
>
>
> Regards,
> Chen Ying
>
[..]
Sincerely,
Armin
--
ALG
Re: how to install Apache OpenOffice 3.4 in headless server
Posted by bjcheny <co...@gmail.com>.
Hi,
I guess it may still require graphics stuff like "X11"?
I just search through openoffice's website with "headless" and seem to get
some info helpful.
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Log_Mac_Meeting_November_21st_2007
[2007-11-21 14:56:06] <PhilippL> ericb2: on the non X11 platforms no
window will be opened, but the graphics system of the platform is of
course still used.
[2007-11-21 14:56:26] <PhilippL> ericb2: on X11 the headless plugin
removes the need for that, too.
I think it's unnecessary to require graphics things once you only ask for
headless mode from openoffice.
Regards,
Chen Ying
2012/5/22 brian mullan <bm...@gmail.com>
> http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html#notes
>
> The above lets you download an Ubuntu, Debian etc installation.
>
> However, at least for Ubuntu there seems to be a problem.
>
> I have a headless server.
>
> I've downloaded the Linux x86-64 DEB
> http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html
>
> But that will only install onto a server with a Desktop unless I'm missing
> some information.
>
> Once downloaded I do the following:
>
> tar xvfz
> Apache_OpenOffice_incubating_3.4.0_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz
> which extracts everything to an ./en-US directory the en-US directory
> contains several dozen .DEB files
>
> dpkg -i <all the .deb files>
>
> that will emit errors concerning gui/desktop requirements so it appeared to
> me that those can only be installed on a server with a desktop and NOT on a
> headless machine.
>
> Maybe I missed some documentation but I know you can start openoffice in
> headless mode once its installed BUT in this case how can you install it on
> a headless machine in the first place?
>