Having trouble finding a word in multiple files

[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2020-06-14 at 17:09 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
>  soffice --headless --convert-to odt *.docx
> *Warning*: The "--headless" option to LibreOffice is misleading.  It
> *still* needs an xserver, even with the --headless option.  The above
> command will fail if run in a truely non-X11 environment (ev as a
> cron job, batch job, etc.).

I was surprised by your statement and have just tested it. The above
command works fine:
- in a terminal in an X window manager
- in a console (no X, but with X installed)
- in a batch job run from a terminal in an X window manager
- in a batch job run from a console (no X, but X installed)
- from a cron job (no X, but X installed)

So I don't think it needs an X server, but it does need X libraries.
I.e., soffice needs X installed to work, which is probably true, since
it is an X application. I would expect that you could not install
soffice without dragging in parts of X as dependencies.

Regards, K.



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