How to compile "headless" LibreOffice on OpenSuse or Debian - asking for documentation

[Michael Stahl]

On 11/06/12 08:13, Thomas Gries wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> for the mere use of converting documents of different formats to PDF or
> HTML in Etherpad Lite which currently uses AbiWord for this purpose
> 
> I need some information how to configure
> 
> + LibreOffice(releases, and also developer version from SVN)
> + for a headless server (hosted virtual machine)
> + i.e. without uneeded "Desktop" modules

what does that mean exactly?

> + for mere commandline use.
> + on OpenSuse, on Debian

it works out of the box: there is a --headless option to "soffice" that
lets it work without a X11 display, using the "svp" VCLplug.  you still
need some X11 libraries and fontconfig etc. installed, but compared to
the LibreOffice install size those are a rounding error.