See this page : http://code.google.com/p/bungeni-editor/wiki/RunningOpenOfficeInServerMode
Its for installing OOo 2.4 on a headless server (i wrote that page for installing OOo on a vps deployment )... but I think the instructions remain the same for OOo 3.0 Ashok On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:48 PM, brian mullan <bmullan.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
