topic How is OpenOffice started in recent releases? in Alfresco Archive

How is OpenOffice started in recent releases?

gronfelt — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:59:53 GMT

As I understand it, Alfresco used to start OpenOffice with a bash script (start_oo.sh), but in recent releases there is no such file. So how is OpenOffice started now? I just installed CE 3.2r2 and during the first couple of restarts OpenOffice was started alright, but now, all of a sudden, it isn't

Re: How is OpenOffice started in recent releases?

loftux — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:32:00 GMT

In tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties
set the option
ooo.exe=/usr/bin/soffice
(the above is what I use on my ubuntu machine, may be a different path for you)

Then it should just work.

One important thing is that if you set the path to something like /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin it actually spawns two processes, and the child process isn't stopped when you stop tomcat.

Re: How is OpenOffice started in recent releases?

gronfelt — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:43:52 GMT

The ooo.exe option is correctly set, but OpenOffice just isn't started during Alfresco startup.