Re: headless libreoffice

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Polytropon" <freebsd@edvax.de>
> To: "Dale Scott (dalescott@shaw)" <dalescott@shaw.ca>
> Cc: "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2023 4:02:32 AM
> Subject: Re: headless libreoffice

> On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 16:14:02 -0700 (MST), Dale Scott wrote:
>> Hi all, I need to install libreoffice on a headless server
>> (for use with Tryton ERP hosted on the same server), and is
>> the best/only solution to install editors/libreoffice even
>> though I won't be using the GUI?
> 
> At least that's what I've been doing in the past. Even though
> you will need to install a lot of X-relasted stuff because
> those are install dependencies, you can then use the headless
> program calls (e. g., "libreoffice --headless ...").
> 
>> There seem to be only two relevant pkgs, "libreoffice" and
>> "libreoffice-il8n", and the latter seems identical to the
>> former except it also includes all the language pkgs, and
>> I see at least wayland is included as a dependency in both
>> pkgs.
> 
> If you don't need to use the language-dependent features,
> go with the regular "libreoffice" package, less stuff to
> install, more space to store actual data. ;-)
> 

Thanks! Appreciate the hand-holding. Cheers