Hi, I guess it may still require graphics stuff like "X11"? I just search through openoffice's website with "headless" and seem to get some info helpful.
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Log_Mac_Meeting_November_21st_2007 [2007-11-21 14:56:06] <PhilippL> ericb2: on the non X11 platforms no window will be opened, but the graphics system of the platform is of course still used. [2007-11-21 14:56:26] <PhilippL> ericb2: on X11 the headless plugin removes the need for that, too. I think it's unnecessary to require graphics things once you only ask for headless mode from openoffice. Regards, Chen Ying 2012/5/22 brian mullan <[email protected]> > http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html#notes > > The above lets you download an Ubuntu, Debian etc installation. > > However, at least for Ubuntu there seems to be a problem. > > I have a headless server. > > I've downloaded the Linux x86-64 DEB > http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html > > But that will only install onto a server with a Desktop unless I'm missing > some information. > > Once downloaded I do the following: > > tar xvfz > Apache_OpenOffice_incubating_3.4.0_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz > which extracts everything to an ./en-US directory the en-US directory > contains several dozen .DEB files > > dpkg -i <all the .deb files> > > that will emit errors concerning gui/desktop requirements so it appeared to > me that those can only be installed on a server with a desktop and NOT on a > headless machine. > > Maybe I missed some documentation but I know you can start openoffice in > headless mode once its installed BUT in this case how can you install it on > a headless machine in the first place? >
