Re: [libreoffice-users] convert xlsx to CSV

2017-08-29 12:20 GMT+02:00 A <publicface@bak.rr.com>:

> On 08/29/2017 01:23 AM, Cley Faye wrote:
>
> > Some things seems wrong on that command line:
> > > > - On most system you can directly call "libreoffice" instead of
> > > > providing
> > > > the full path
> > > >
> > > > Yes, but then I get /usr/bin/libreoffice since /usr/bin is in my path.
> > > /usr/bin/libreoffice is a symlink to ../lib/libreoffice/program/soffice*
> > >
> > > Note the file sizes and timestamps.  I don't know what the difference is
> > > between the two or which is correct to use.
> > >
> > > ll /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice*
> > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6012 Apr 28 07:59 /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/s
> > > office*
> > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6304 Apr 28 12:36 /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/s
> > > office.bin*
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  789 Apr 28 13:32 /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/s
> > > officerc
> > >
> > >
> > > ​The "libreoffice" command/link is there to avoid issues when/if the way
> > LibreOffice is installed change. Suppose in a future release the binary is
> > renamed to loffice, you could still use the ​libreoffice command without
> > issue.
> > The "soffice" script manage some extra command line parameters and launch
> > the actual LibreOffice program; but for your purpose it should make no
> > difference using one or the other, except that directly calling stuff in
> > /usr/lib/libreoffice is not as futureproof.
>
> I use the full path because it's the only one that gives output as you can
> see:
>
> apb@yellow:/usr/local/src/greetonix/src$ /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice
> -h
> apb@yellow:/usr/local/src/greetonix/src$ /usr/bin/libreoffice -h
> apb@yellow:/usr/local/src/greetonix/src$ /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin
> -h
> LibreOffice 5.1.6.2 10m0(Build:2)
>
> Usage: soffice [options] [documents...]
> [snip]


​Maybe THAT should be fixed before investigating further, because it should
work. This means that somehow​ libreoffice can't find it's installation
directory. It might or might not be related to your difficulties, but
there's no doubt that something's wrong here.

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