I'm not sure if I need to update at all. I was looking at the minimum requirements for installation of unotools but I think I can maybe use something called PyUNO. I can't look at it now unfortunately, got to do a release.
On Monday, 6 July 2015 18:36:47 UTC+1, Peter Suter wrote: > > 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 >> >> >> (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/ >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Trac Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
