How to install Open Office and Unoconv on Amazon AWS Linux

[Greg]

We are trying to install Open Office to allow us to install unoconv so that office docs can be indexed and searched and it appears there is an issue with installing Open Office on Amazon Web Services linux platform, see comment below from someone asking this question of AWS and the AWS response.  Any help / guidance would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks

 

Greg

 

I have an instance of the beta 64-bit Amazon Linux running.
I've been using yum to install, but am unable to install open office.

yum install openoffice-base
yum install openoffice-writer
fail

How can I install headless Open Office 3.2 on this instance?

Edited by: maryjane_s on Dec 30, 2010 4:46 PM

Replies: 1 | Pages: 1 - Last Post: Dec 31, 2010 11:12 AM by: Ben@AWS

Replies

Re: OpenOffice on Amazon Linux Posted by: Ben@AWS Posted on: Dec 31, 2010 11:04 AM in response to: maryjane_s Reply Thank you for trying out Amazon Linux AMI. Amazon does not currently package OpenOffice.org or any of the standard GUI tools and programs. There are several OpenOffice.org-headless RPMs for Centos and RHEL available, but many of the dependencies are not provided in Amazon Linux AMI, such as the GTK and Gnome libraries. Since Amazon Linux AMI has been engineered as a headless cloud server image, GUI libraries and programs generally do not install. After looking at the source package for the OpenOffice.org, headless still requires much of the GUI components, and as such will not likely work with out significant effort (headless is provided in the main OpenOffice.org SRPM for most major Linux distributions). At this time, we have no plans of providing OpenOffice.org.

[Tom Gleason]

I would suggest trying an Ubuntu AMI rather than the Amazon Linux AMI. 

Tom

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[Greg]

Tom, thanks we did exactly that and it did work. However, we are only getting a generic thumbnail for ppt and xls files.  Also it does not appear to be indexing any of the content in the .xls or ppt files.  To be honest not sure exactly what to expect but do not believe it is working correctly for those file types. Thanks for your help.

 

Greg

[Mitu L]

May be this can help !

http://dharmdip.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/install-and-configure-libreoffice-4-amazon-ec2-instance-amazon-linux/