OpenOffice in Centos4.7

[gvanto]

I've just installed what I think is open-office ... (on remote centos4.7 server)

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Installed: openoffice.org-i18n.i386 0:1.1.5-10.6.0.7.EL4
Dependency Installed: GConf2.i386 0:2.8.1-2.el4 ORBit2.i386 0:2.12.0-3 compat-libstdc++-33.i386 0:3.2.3-47.3 gnome-mime-data.i386 0:2.4.1-5 gnome-vfs2.i386 0:2.8.2-8.7.el4_7.2 libIDL.i386 0:0.8.4-1.centos4 libbonobo.i386 0:2.8.0-2 openoffice.org.i386 0:1.1.5-10.6.0.7.EL4 openoffice.org-libs.i386 0:1.1.5-10.6.0.7.EL4 redhat-artwork.i386 0:0.120.1-2.1E.centos4 redhat-logos.noarch 0:1.1.26-1.centos4.4 shared-mime-info.i386 0:0.15-10.1.el4 startup-notification.i386 0:0.7-1
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I need to run openoffice in headless mode, in order to run JODConverter, but when I try and do that, I get the following:

[17:12:25][root@host:~/java]# ooffice -headless -accept="socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=8100;urp;" -nofirststartwizard
/usr/lib/ooo-1.1/program/soffice.bin X11 error: Can't open display:
Set DISPLAY environment variable, use -display option
or check permissions of your X-Server
(See "man X" resp. "man xhost" for details)

I haven't found any open-office.org-headless packages using yum on this Centos4.7 server ... if someone knows where to find them or has some advice on this problem, would be much appreciated !

gvanto
centos newbie

[DTsurfer]

Hi - don't know if you've solved this problem already or not.

For running Xwindows-based GUI applications, I have used a program Xvfb, which is part of the core X11 package. It gives you a "Virtual display Frame Buffer" at the display number you specify (you should pick one not in use, we generally use 1000+). Then set and export your DISPLAY variable accordingly (eg. "setenv DISPLAY localhost:1001" )

I think if you search on Xvfb you can find more details.

Good luck.
DT