Re: [Trac] Installing docrenderplugin on Windows

2015-07-06 Thread Ita
Thanks, Peter.
I'm a little further along now. I started LibreOffice from the command line 
in the way you suggested - thanks! So simple. It's there but the plugin 
still isn't working. Looking back at the documentation I realised I'd 
forgotten about the ooextract.py script, which must be located on the path. 
I dropped in the script and it runs but can't import 'uno'. 
'uno' seems to be a tool that allows you to interact with Libreoffice. 
Clearly, I will need it.
It looks like I'll have to update my python version before I install 'uno' 
(I'm at 2.7.6). At least my version of LibreOffice seems acceptable.
If I update my python version I'm afraid I might break Trac, which everyone 
else in the office depends on. What's the conventional wisdom here? Should 
I be afraid, very afraid, or will it probably just work?
Cheers, Ita

On Saturday, 4 July 2015 06:34:15 UTC+1, Peter Suter wrote:

 On 03.07.2015 11:33, Ita wrote: 
  My problem came with running init-script as it's not a Windows script. 

 I have not used docrenderplugin. From looking at the script it seems you 
 can just start LibreOffice directly instead of using the script: 

 C:\Program Files (x86)\LibreOffice 4\program\soffice.exe --headless 
 --nologo --nofirststartwizard --nodefault 
 --accept=socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.ComponentContext 

 This starts a LibreOffice in the background. I think that should be 
 enough to get the plugin working. 

  After peering at it for a while I decided that I could achieve the same 
  thing by running LibreOffice as a Windows Service. Unfortunately, I 
  haven't been able to discover a way of doing this, even with the help of 
  Google. 
  Since it looks like LibreOffice can be run as a service on Unix I can't 
  see why it wouldn't be possible on Windows, but I'm in new territory 
  here and would love some help from anyone who's done this or who knows 
  how to go about it. Maybe my approach is totally wrong and I should be 
  going about it another way? 

 But the above is not as a real Windows Service. If you need that,  you 
 can apparently just wrap the above command in a generic Windows Service 
 wrapper like srvany.exe from the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit: 


 http://www.tonido.com/support/display/cloud/Running+Openoffice+as+a+service+in+Windows
  

 (This page uses OpenOffice but I assume the same also works for 
 LibreOffice.) 

 You could maybe also try nssm (instead of srvany.exe): 

 http://nssm.cc/ 


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Re: [Trac] Installing docrenderplugin on Windows

2015-07-06 Thread Peter Suter

Do not update to Trac's Python to 3.x. That will definitely break things.
Or do you mean to update to 2.7.10? That might be less of a problem, but 
you might still need to recreate eggs etc. I'm not sure.


Peter

On 06.07.2015 10:51, Ita wrote:

Thanks, Peter.
I'm a little further along now. I started LibreOffice from the command 
line in the way you suggested - thanks! So simple. It's there but the 
plugin still isn't working. Looking back at the documentation I 
realised I'd forgotten about the ooextract.py script, which must be 
located on the path. I dropped in the script and it runs but can't 
import 'uno'.
'uno' seems to be a tool that allows you to interact with Libreoffice. 
Clearly, I will need it.
It looks like I'll have to update my python version before I install 
'uno' (I'm at 2.7.6). At least my version of LibreOffice seems acceptable.
If I update my python version I'm afraid I might break Trac, which 
everyone else in the office depends on. What's the conventional wisdom 
here? Should I be afraid, very afraid, or will it probably just work?

Cheers, Ita

On Saturday, 4 July 2015 06:34:15 UTC+1, Peter Suter wrote:

On 03.07.2015 11:33, Ita wrote:
 My problem came with running init-script as it's not a Windows
script.

I have not used docrenderplugin. From looking at the script it
seems you
can just start LibreOffice directly instead of using the script:

C:\Program Files (x86)\LibreOffice 4\program\soffice.exe --headless
--nologo --nofirststartwizard --nodefault
--accept=socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.ComponentContext


This starts a LibreOffice in the background. I think that should be
enough to get the plugin working.

 After peering at it for a while I decided that I could achieve
the same
 thing by running LibreOffice as a Windows Service. Unfortunately, I
 haven't been able to discover a way of doing this, even with the
help of
 Google.
 Since it looks like LibreOffice can be run as a service on Unix
I can't
 see why it wouldn't be possible on Windows, but I'm in new
territory
 here and would love some help from anyone who's done this or who
knows
 how to go about it. Maybe my approach is totally wrong and I
should be
 going about it another way?

But the above is not as a real Windows Service. If you need
that,  you
can apparently just wrap the above command in a generic Windows
Service
wrapper like srvany.exe from the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit:


http://www.tonido.com/support/display/cloud/Running+Openoffice+as+a+service+in+Windows

http://www.tonido.com/support/display/cloud/Running+Openoffice+as+a+service+in+Windows


(This page uses OpenOffice but I assume the same also works for
LibreOffice.)

You could maybe also try nssm (instead of srvany.exe):

http://nssm.cc/

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