Install and Run OpenOffice 4.1.2 on Amazon Linux

After installing Open Office 4.1.2 on Amazon Linux (http://www.openoffice.org/download/common/instructions.html#other_linux) , I run it in the background soffice -headless -accept=„socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=8100;urp;“ -nofirststartwizard & When I now start a Program that relies on a running Open Office Instance, I get an com.sun.star.lib.loader.Loader::getCustomLoader: no UNO installation found! What can I do about it? Answer AttributionSource : Link , Question … Read more

Unable to change encoding to UTF-8 in Open Office [closed]

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 12 years ago. Improve this question I see the following when I look at a document in Finnish alt text http://files.getdropbox.com/u/175564/oo-bug-finnish.png The problem seems to be in encoding. I … Read more

OpenOffice Headless Mode – Temp Directory?

We’re running OpenOffice 3.2 in headless mode. It writes all of it’s temporary files to /tmp and we’re running out of disk space, so I’d like to change the temp directory for it. Sadly, I can’t seem to figure out how to do this. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Answer Isn’t this configuration locate … Read more

Install Glibc2 using Yum

I’m trying to install glibc2 version 2.11 that’s needed for openoffice 3.4 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=119393 but i can’t seem to find the dependency with yum. I already have the following dependencies installed. glibc.i686 2.5-49.el5_5.7 installed glibc.x86_64 2.5-49.el5_5.7 installed glibc-common.x86_64 2.5-49.el5_5.7 installed glibc-devel.x86_64 2.5-49.el5_5.7 installed glibc-headers.x86_64 2.5-49.el5_5.7 installed libc-client.x86_64 2004g-2.2.1 installed and glibc.i686 2.5-81.el5_8.2 updates glibc.x86_64 2.5-81.el5_8.2 updates … Read more

Openoffice headless on CentOS 7 / 8

We used to run Openoffice headless on CentOS 6.8 but are now upgrading to CentOS 8 However, I’m not able to install Openoffice headless using the following commands: yum install openoffice.org-base yum install openoffice.org-writer yum install openoffice.org-headless I keep getting the error (on both CentOS 7 and 8) No match for argument: openoffice.org-base Error: Unable … Read more

Migrate reports from MS Access to OOo Base

I’m currently looking at upgrading our office machines from Office XP to Office 2010. For most users the standard edition is fine but just a few of us use Access. There are only a couple of standalone Access databases but the program is used fairly extensively (mostly by myself) as a front end to MySQL. … Read more