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Configuring OpenOffice Transform Service on Ubuntu 5.10

davidweinstein — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:54:20 GMT

I have installed Alfresco 1.1.2 for Tomcat on Ubuntu 5.10 and it seems to work fine. However, I'm not sure how to configure the OpenOffice Transform Service. Ubuntu comes with Open Office 2 pre-installed. There does not seem to be a separate Open Office directory. Rather, the executables seem to

Re: Configuring OpenOffice Transform Service on Ubuntu 5.10

paulhh — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:44:15 GMT

Hi

All you should need to do is change the /opt/OpenOffice.org part to /usr/bin/soffice with the same options. All that's needed is to run the soffice binary - those options set it up to work "headless", so no windows open and it's listenng on a specific port for processing instructions.

Cheers
Paul.