Installing Libreoffice Headless for 5.0.x in CentOS 7

Question

I am installing libreoffice 5.0.x on server for daily conversion task. So I need only the headless component. I am following the below tutorial for the same but it installs the complete version. How can the headless version be install.

Source: http://www.tecmint.com/install-libreoffice-on-rhel-centos-fedora-debian-ubuntu-linux-mint/

Answer 1

Headless is a mode, not a separate package. Install the standard libreoffice package and then run with the --headless parameter. For example:

soffice --convert-to pdf *.doc --headless

Apparently other people have had the same question:

• https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/53173/libreoffice-444-and-the-headless-install/
• https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=53875