LibreOffice configuration

Caution

After changing system.openoffice.path parameter is required to restart application.

Linux

Debian & Ubuntu

Note

OpenKM has been roughly tested with recent build of OpenOffice and LibreOffice, but in recent Linux distros only LibreOffice is available to install. Anyway it works pretty well.

Install application:

$ apt-get install libreoffice

Install languages:

$ apt-get install libreoffice-l10n-en-gb

Go to Administration > Configuration parameters:

Field / Property	Type	Description
system.openoffice.path	String	The path may change depending your OS version. To verify that your path is correct, take a look into your chosen path and it should be a folder named program, otherwise the path is not correct. /usr/bin/libreoffice

CentOS

Install the application:

$ yum install libreoffice

Install languages:

$ yum install libreoffice-langpack-en

Caution

By default, OpenOffice or LibreOffice is not present on Red Hat repository. If you’re using this OS then you should try to install manually.

Download and install one of them from:

• LibreOffice: http://www.libreoffice.org
• OpenOffice: http://www.openoffice.org

Check if you’ve installed all needed packages:

$ rpm -qa | grep openoffice

These packages are mandatory:

• openoffice.org-ure-3.1.1-19.5.el5_5.6 ( ure )
• openoffice.org-headless-3.1.1-19.5.el5_5.6 ( headless )
• openoffice.org-pyuno-3.1.1-19.5.el5_5.6 ( pyuno )

Caution

The name of the packages can change depending your OpenOffice version. Take these as reference for your check.

Go to Administration > Configuration parameters:

Field / Property	Type	Description
system.openoffice.path	String	The path can change depending your OS version. To verify your path is correct, into your chosen path should be a folder named program, otherwise the path is not correct. /usr/bin/libreoffice

Windows

 Download and install one of them:

• LibreOffice: http://www.libreoffice.org
• OpenOffice: http://www.openoffice.org

Note

Our suggestion is to use OpenOffice in Windows OS. In some Windows OS we’ve found unexpected problems that are automatically solved changing LibreOffice to OpenOffice. Take it only as a suggestion.

Go to Administration > Configuration parameters:

Field / Property	Type	Description
system.openoffice.path	String	The path can change depending your OS version. To verify your path is correct, into your chosen path should be a folder named program, otherwise the path is not correct. c:\Program files\OpenOffice 4

Check configuration

• Go to Administration > Configuration parameters and click on check icon . If all is right you should see under system.openoffice.path parameter an OK status.
• After application starts you should see a process called soffice.bin.
• Upload a MS Office or OpenOffice file. Select the document and from toolbar choose the option Download as PDF .
• Take a look at $TOMCAT_HOME/logs/catalina.log file. At the end of the startup process you should see something like this:

2015-03-17 17:10:45,792 [pool-2-thread-1] INFO  com.openkm.servlet.RepositoryStartupServlet - *** Start OpenOffice manager ***
2015-03-17 17:10:45,813 [pool-2-thread-1] INFO  com.openkm.util.DocConverter - *** Build Office Manager ***
2015-03-17 17:10:45,813 [pool-2-thread-1] INFO  com.openkm.util.DocConverter - system.openoffice.path=/usr/lib/libreoffice
2015-03-17 17:10:45,813 [pool-2-thread-1] INFO  com.openkm.util.DocConverter - system.openoffice.tasks=200
2015-03-17 17:10:45,813 [pool-2-thread-1] INFO  com.openkm.util.DocConverter - system.openoffice.port=2002
2015-03-17 17:10:45,866 [pool-2-thread-1] INFO  org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.ProcessPoolOfficeManager - ProcessManager implementation is SigarProcessManager
2015-03-17 17:10:45,915 [OfficeProcessThread-0] WARN  org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.OfficeProcess - profile dir '/tmp/.jodconverter_socket_host-127.0.0.1_port-2002' already exists; deleting
2015-03-17 17:10:45,934 [OfficeProcessThread-0] INFO  org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.OfficeProcess - starting process with acceptString 'socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=2002,tcpNoDelay=1' and profileDir '/tmp/.jodconverter_socket_host-127.0.0.1_port-2002'
2015-03-17 17:10:45,956 [OfficeProcessThread-0] INFO  org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.OfficeProcess - started process; pid = 22097
2015-03-17 17:10:48,818 [OfficeProcessThread-0] WARN  org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.ManagedOfficeProcess - office process died with exit code 81; restarting it
2015-03-17 17:10:48,825 [OfficeProcessThread-0] INFO  org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.OfficeProcess - starting process with acceptString 'socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=2002,tcpNoDelay=1' and profileDir '/tmp/.jodconverter_socket_host-127.0.0.1_port-2002'
2015-03-17 17:10:48,832 [OfficeProcessThread-0] INFO  org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.OfficeProcess - started process; pid = 22137

Note

Read OpenOffice LibreOffice configuration parameters to get more information about all available OpenOffice & LibreOffice configuration parameters.