Installing LibreOffice on Amazon Linux

Instruction for LibreOffice dependency installation

1. cd /usr/local
2. wget http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/5.0.0/rpm/x86_64/LibreOffice_5.0.0_Linux_x86-64_rpm.tar.gz

3. cd LibreOffice_5.0.0_Linux_x86-64_rpm

4. yum localinstall *.rpm --skip-broken

5. yum install cairo
6. yum install cups

7. Update path by updating ~/.bashrc file.

export PATH="$PATH:/opt/libreoffice5.0/program"


8. sudo yum install libXinerama.x86_64 cups-libs dbus-glib

9. You are all set!

libreoffice is installed successfully

but it complains it cannot find jre

[root@ip-8-8-8-8 ~]# libreoffice --convert-to pdf document.txt --headless
javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment!
Warning: failed to read path from javaldx
convert /root/document.txt -> /root/document.pdf using filter : writer_pdf_Export
Overwriting: /root/document.pdf

even though, I've already installed

if ! [ -x "$(command -v java)" ]; then
  echo "Installing Java Runtime Environment (JRE)..."
  yum -y install java-1.8.0-openjdk
fi