HowTo: Install Collabora Online on Ubuntu 16.04. (without Docker!)

go4ncloud · February 8, 2017, 10:19am

I try it at the moment. I already realized that I have to use poco-1.7.7-all because I got en error missing Poco/Net/SecureServerSocket.h

I found a hint in the net that poco-x-all coud solve this problem.

go4ncloud · February 8, 2017, 1:41pm

See above! I managed it to compile an install LibreOffice Online! Hope this will help you.

neis · February 8, 2017, 3:04pm

Wonderful! Could you give us script to compile loolwsd and loleaflet?

go4ncloud · February 8, 2017, 4:13pm

A script such something with bash or a script such as a written Howto?

For a bash script i haven’t the time and moreover I haven’t the skills. Sorry. Perhaps you will find another nextcloud user that can use my hints to develop a script. bash, perl or what so ever.

I’m more eager to find out, how I can use self signed certificates with LibreOffice Online, so that I and other can test LibreOffice Online in a Virtualbox environment.

Kind regards.

And by the way. It isn’t all my credit. There are a lot of others. There information helped me to find my way!

neis · February 8, 2017, 4:39pm

@go4ncloud, I don’t need a bash script. It’s enough configure command for loolwsd if you can

go4ncloud · February 9, 2017, 4:56am

OK. I see this is a misunderstanding. I wrote down the way one can configure, compile and install loolwsd in my first input above. I thought it would be a good Idea to write down it a the same place I mentioned the way to compile an install LibreOffice Core. But:

apt-get install libcap-dev libcap-ng-dev python-polib python3-polib libcunit1 libcunit1-dev
apt-get install npm nodejs-legacy

npm install -g npm
npm install -g jake

Download LibreOffice Online:
cd /usr/local/src/collabora/
git clone "https://github.com/LibreOffice/online.git"
chown -R root.staff online/
cd online

Prepare configuration:
libtoolize
aclocal
automake --add-missing
autoreconf
autoheader
automake --add-missing

I had to run automake twice, because the first time i got an error!
I think your problem is caused by a wrong lokit path in the configure command.

Configure LibreOffice Online:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/lib/loolwsd
–bindir=/usr/local/lib/loolwsd/bin
–sysconfdir=/usr/local/lib/loolwsd/etc
–enable-silent-rules
–with-lokit-path=/usr/local/src/collabora/online/bundled/include
–with-lo-path=/usr/local/lib/collaboraoffice
–with-poco-includes=/usr/local/include
–with-poco-libs=/usr/local/lib

There are two options one can set the limits of connections and the limit of documents:
–max-connections
–max-documents
(see ./configure --help)

Compile:
make

Install:
checkinstall

In Debian 8.7 one have to adapt /etc/checkinstallrc. Change TRANSLATE=1 to TRANSLATE=0 (ad least on a German environment). Otherwise checkinstall fails to create install pathes.
I testet it in Ubuntu 16.04 Virtualbox client and in a Debian 8.7 Virtualbox client.

Hope, this helps you, to install loolwsd on your system. Could you tell me, if it works on your machine. I’m interested in knowing if RAM is a factor.

neis · February 9, 2017, 5:40am

Thank you very much for your help! I’m installing Debian 8.7 and than I’ll restart process from the beginning. This evening I hope to give you a positive feedback (until now I used Ubuntu 16.10).

go4ncloud · February 9, 2017, 9:36am

OK. Hint: I have changed the etc path. It’s more elegant in my opinion.
–sysconfdir=/usr/local/lib/loolwsd/etc \

In the meantime, I try to find out how to handle loleafleat.

husisusi · February 10, 2017, 5:40am

Hello,

it is ready. Just run this script in new installed Ubuntu 16.04.

github.com

husisusi/officeonlin-install.sh/blob/master/officeonline-install.sh

#!/bin/bash
#VERSION 2.5.1
#Written by: Subhi H. & Marc C.
#Github Contributors: Aalaesar, Kassiematis, morph027
#This script is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
#the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
#Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

#This script is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
#but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
#or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
#You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
#this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
# shellcheck disable=SC2034,SC2154

whendiditstopped() {
  echo "Ended at $(date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')" >> ${log_dir}/timewatch.log
}

if [[ $(id -u) -ne 0 ]] ; then echo 'Please run me as root or "sudo ./officeonline-install.sh"' ; exit 1 ; fi

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Enjoy!!!

neis · February 10, 2017, 5:46am

loolwsd built correctly also with 4Gb ram.

Pisoko · February 10, 2017, 10:22am

Nice script. I got a fresh installed ubuntu 16.04.
I failed while starting the service (make run) with following error:

Launch this in your browser:

https://localhost:9980/loleaflet/f81ab32/loleaflet.html?file_path=file:///opt/online/test/data/hello-world.odt

Or for the Admin Console:

https://admin:admin@localhost:9980/loleaflet/dist/admin/admin.html

-24882 10:19:20.687860 [ docbrk_ws_24878 ] WRN SocketProcessor [docbrk_ws_24878]: Socket error.| common/IoUtil.cpp:78
-24882 10:19:20.687926 [ docbrk_ws_24878 ] INF SocketProcessor [docbrk_ws_24878] finished. stop: false, n: -1, payload size: 0, flags: 0| common/IoUtil.cpp:cb
Makefile:1956: recipe for target ‘run’ failed
make: *** [run] Error 70

husisusi · February 10, 2017, 11:28am

let me know your output:
lsof -i :9980
systemctl status loolwsd.service

try first to stop it:
systemctl stop loolwsd.service
Then as root:
su lool
cd /opt/online
make run

Pisoko · February 13, 2017, 7:43am

Meanwhile the service is running and I configured the apache2

I have access to https://localhost/loleaflet/f81ab32/loleaflet.html?file_path=file:///opt/online/test/data/hello-world.odt
But in ownCloud/nextcloud there is this error:

Service is unavailable. Please try again later and report to your administrator if the issue persists.

Well, this is embarrassing, we cannot connect to your document. Please try again.

The logs:
OPI host is not on the same host as the WOPI client
No acceptable WOPI hosts found matching the target host [cc.cc.cc] in config.

I tryed to configure the loolwsd.xml.in and added the hosts, but it fails.

husisusi · February 13, 2017, 8:27am

Hello Pisoko,

its loolwsd.xml and not loolwsd.xml.ini.

Pisoko · February 13, 2017, 8:30am

Yeah, you’re right.
I edited the .xml and it works for me.

Is there any way to update this installation in the future without building a new server from the scratch?

neis · February 13, 2017, 2:15pm

Thank @husisusi! Your script works with debian 8.7, too!

husisusi · February 13, 2017, 2:22pm

I’m glad to hear that. Is sudo in Debian 8.7 preinstalled or you have to install it?

joergschulz · February 13, 2017, 3:08pm

Seems to compile, here too. But the service script seems to be different. Did you change anything in some configuration? Make run doesn’t start either. I presume I have to change the loolwsd.xml first?

husisusi · February 13, 2017, 3:11pm

Try to restart your Machine and use systemctl.

joergschulz · February 13, 2017, 5:35pm

My error - libkrb5-dev wasn’t installed, libreoffice compile failed. Now I manually go through the script and am optimistic it will work on debian one of these days.
Thank you - I will post news if there are any.