What is an adequate "existing LibreOffice installation" for extension development?

[Michael Stahl]

On 10.01.20 18:09, David Johnson wrote:
> The environment I work in:
> 
> Ubuntu 19.10
> LibreOffice 6.3.3.2
> 
> The LibreOffice SDK requires a path to a LibreOffice installation:
> 
> "*OFFICE_HOME*: Path to an existing LibreOffice installation, e.g. 
> "/opt/libreoffice8". Be sure that it is not a user installation only."
> 
> My question: can I use the LibreOffice that is in the Ubuntu repository 
> for this purpose?
> 
> In other words, will the following suffice:
> 
> $ sudo apt-get install libreoffice
> 
> and then I tried to find the installation directory, which seems to be:
> 
> /usr/lib/libreoffice/

yes and no.

if you install the SDK from Ubuntu repository too then you have to use 
the Ubuntu libreoffice package. i'm not sure what it's called; in Fedora 
it's "libreoffice-sdk".

if you install the SDK from TDF upstream packages you have to install 
LibreOffice from TDF upstream packages.

> Is this adequate? Or is this "only a user installation"?

i'm not sure what "user installation" refers to here, but possibly it is 
the user configuration directory, cf. soffice -env:UserInstallation=...

> If it is not adequate, what is the most efficient way to install a 
> "non-user" version of LibreOffice on my machine? Should that be done 
> manually (compiling from source for example?) Or can I make use of other 
> standard packages in the Ubuntu repository? Or...?
> 
> Thank you so much.
>