Re: [libreoffice-users] --convert-to always fails silently on Ubuntu

How would that make a difference? Isn't that what he means when he
said it wouldn't work as SU? - either that or he ran "sudo su" before
running the command, so I doubt that that is th problem.

On 28/03/2013, Jay Lozier <jslozier@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/27/2013 10:57 PM, Graham Glass wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I just downloaded libreoffice 4 and installed it on a Mac (Lion) and
> > Linux
> > (Ubuntu). On the Mac, everything works exactly as I expected, and I can
> > easily convert documents to pdfs using the command line tool like this:
> >
> > /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice --headless
> > --convert-to
> > pdf sample.ppt
> >
> > However, on Unbuntu, when I execute the equivalent command, it always
> > fails
> > quickly and silently with exit code 77 (Permission denied).
> >
> > /opt/libreoffice4.0/program/soffice --headless --convert-to pdf
> > sample.ppt
> >
> > This failure happens regardless of whether I am a regular user or
> > superuser.
> > I am not running libreoffice via a user interface, and this command is
> > being
> > executed on an Amazon EC2 headless machine.
> >
> > Can someone offer any advice, either a method to get more error
> > information
> > (such as a log file or a verbose flag) so I can figure out what's going
> > on?
> > I'm sure it's a simple issue, but right now the lack of error reporting
> > is
> > making it hard to get the issue resolved.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Graham
> >
> >
> >
> > --
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> Graham,
>
> Try the command prefixed with sudo.
>
> --
> Jay Lozier
> jslozier@gmail.com
>
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