Install Open Office Service on Debian/(K)Ubuntu

1. Install (Libre)OpenOffice-Headless as root (through su, sudo, etc.):

sudo apt-get install libreoffice

2. Create and edit a file named libreoffice.sh (for example) with you favorite editor over /etc/init.d:

vi /etc/init.d/libreoffice.sh

#!/bin/bash# libreoffice.org  headless server script## chkconfig: 2345 80 30# description: headless libreoffice server script# processname: libreoffice# # Author: Vic Vijayakumar# Modified by Federico Ch. Tomasczik# Modified by Manuel Vega UlloaOOo_HOME=/usr/bin
SOFFICE_PATH=$OOo_HOME/soffice
PIDFILE=/var/run/libreoffice-server.pid
set-e
case"$1"in
    start)if[-f $PIDFILE ];then
      echo "LibreOffice headless server has already started."
      sleep 5exitfi
      echo "Starting LibreOffice headless server"
      $SOFFICE_PATH -headless -nologo -nofirststartwizard -accept="socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=8100;urp"&>/dev/null2>&1
      touch $PIDFILE
    ;;
    stop)if[-f $PIDFILE ];then
      echo "Stopping LibreOffice headless server."
      killall -9 soffice && killall -9 soffice.bin
      rm -f $PIDFILE
      exitfi
      echo "LibreOffice headless server is not running."exit;;*)
    echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}"exit1esacexit0

3. Change the permssions to this file:

chmod 0755/etc/init.d/libreoffice.sh

4. Install openoffice.sh init script links:

update-rc.d libreoffice.sh defaults

5. Start the service:

/etc/init.d/./libreoffice.sh start

6. You can see if libreofice is running with this command:

netstat -nap | grep office

You should get something like this:

tcp        00127.0.0.1:81000.0.0.0:*
LISTEN     2467/soffice.bin 

• Service libreoffice start automatically when you restart the next time your server.