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I am trying the following to start OpenOffice headless service:

soffice -headless -accept="socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=8100;urp;"

I have tried with double-dash -- instead of single - and this command just hangs and the prompt never comes:

soffice --headless --accept="socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=8100;urp;"

I have installed openoffice by following this link and it seems to be installed correctly as checked through rpm -qa | less which shows all the openoffice packages.

I have even tried removing it and installing again, which also completes without any error.

But the service is not getting started, I have checked through:

# netstat -tulpn | grep :8100
# netstat -tulpn

But I don't see any service listening on the port: 8100.

Can you let me know what am I doing wrong? I need this for integration with Liferay. Portal.

Environment: CentOS 6.2, 64-bit.

Thanks

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(update your OS... no excuse to be running EL6.2 today)

I have the LibreOffice (formerly OpenOffice) headless server running on some of my production systems for batch processing of .XLS documents.

The init script used for this is available here.

The running command line looks like the following. Port selection should be self-explanatory: 

/usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin --headless --accept=socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;

The necessary packages are:

# rpm -aq | grep libreoffice | sort
libreoffice-calc-4.0.4.2-9.el6.x86_64
libreoffice-core-4.0.4.2-9.el6.x86_64
libreoffice-headless-4.0.4.2-9.el6.x86_64
libreoffice-opensymbol-fonts-4.0.4.2-9.el6.noarch
libreoffice-pyuno-4.0.4.2-9.el6.x86_64
libreoffice-ure-4.0.4.2-9.el6.x86_64
libreoffice-writer-4.0.4.2-9.el6.x86_64
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  • Thanks. What version of CentOS are you running? – Prakash K Sep 30 '14 at 08:56
  • We upgraded to `CentOS 6.5` and have installed `Libreoffice 4.3.2.` When I run the script it says: `ooffice: command not found`. Any inputs? Thanks. – Prakash K Oct 01 '14 at 11:12
  • Thanks a lot found the way to make the command work. But I had to use `soffice` instead of `ooffice`, might be because of the version of LibreOffice. Also one more thing regarding `LibreOffice (formerly OpenOffice)`: LibreOffice is not OpenOffice. LibreOffice is built on top of OpenOffice but OpenOffice still is released separately by Apache, recently they released version 4.1.1 of AOO. Thanks – Prakash K Oct 01 '14 at 11:43
  • Oh, well in Red Hat's eyes, it seemed like one replaced the other. – ewwhite Oct 01 '14 at 12:01