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I want to automoate some PPT -> PDF conversions, so I want to run openoffice in headless mode for scripting.

On my machine with X running I can start opemoffice in headless mode via

soffice -accept="socket,port=8100;urp;" -headless

This doesn't seem to work on a server with X not running.

$ soffice -accept="socket,port=8100;urp;" -headless
/usr/lib/openoffice/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)
$

The error doesnt seem to make sense as well, as the point of specifying -headless was so that I do not need X, while this command seems to look for X.

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You may be interested in unoconv.

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That still requires a OpenOffice running in headless mode, which I am unable to do. – uswaretech Mar 18 '10 at 9:36
Well yes but unoconv takes care of it.. Or do you mean you tried it out and got the same error? – Joril Mar 18 '10 at 10:02
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If OOo hasn't been run on that server before you'll need to bypass the registration wizard. Looks like the option to do that is -nofirststartwizard; however there may be other complications as mentioned here.

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