Installation with packages fails with missing libs libsofficeapp.so & libmergedlo.so

Installation & Configuration
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I am failing to install collabora online from packages. My server is hosted on OVH, I am installing on a KVM-qemu virtual machine that hosts a functionnal nextcloud.
To save money as my providers charges me for extra IP and extra subdomain my nextcloud appears on a subpath and I try to install collabora on another subpath. My config :
uname -a

Linux ************** 6.1.0-32-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.129-1 (2025-03-06) x86_64 GNU/Linux

dpkg -l coolwsd code-brand

.../...
ii  code-brand     24.04-34     all          Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE) branding
ii  coolwsd        24.04.13.2-1 amd64        Collabora Online WebSocket Daemon

dpkg -l nginx*

.../...
ii  nginx              1.22.1-9+deb12u1 amd64        small, powerful, scalable web/proxy server
un  nginx-abi-1.22.1-7 <aucune>         <aucune>     (aucune description n'est disponible)
ii  nginx-common       1.22.1-9+deb12u1 all          small, powerful, scalable web/proxy server - common files
un  nginx-core         <aucune>         <aucune>     (aucune description n'est disponible)
un  nginx-doc          <aucune>         <aucune>     (aucune description n'est disponible)
ii  nginx-extras       1.22.1-9+deb12u1 amd64        nginx web/proxy server (extended version)
ii  nginx-full         1.22.1-9+deb12u1 all          nginx web/proxy server (standard version with 3rd parties)
un  nginx-light        <aucune>         <aucune>     (aucune description n'est disponible)

my steps are:
1- Import of the signing key
2- install the coolwsd and code-brand
3- change values of /etc/coolwsd/coolwsd.xml with the following commands

  • sudo coolconfig set ssl.enable false
  • sudo coolconfig set ssl.termination true
  • sudo coolconfig set storage.wopi.host ************.fr/collabora
  • sudo coolconfig set-admin-password
  • sudo coolconfig set net.service_root collabora
  • sudo coolconfig set net.proto IPv4
  • sudo coolconfig set memproportion 30.0
  • sudo coolconfig set level debug
  • sudo coolconfig set net.listen loopback
  • sudo coolconfig set admin_console.enable true
  • sudo systemctl restart coolwsd

the service fails :
sudo systemctl status coolwsd
Ă— coolwsd.service - Collabora Online WebSocket Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/coolwsd.service; disabled; preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2025-03-25 01:33:38 CET; 7h ago
Duration: 8min 21.229s
Main PID: 19570 (code=exited, status=70)
CPU: 1.889s

mars 25 01:33:38 ************ coolwsd[19570]: wsd-19570-19589 2025-03-25 01:33:38.080113 +0100 [ prisoner_poll ] TRC  ppoll start, timeoutMicroS: 64000000 size 1| net/Socket.cpp:503
mars 25 01:33:38 r************ coolwsd[19570]: wsd-19570-19570 2025-03-25 01:33:38.738148 +0100 [ coolwsd ] TRC  Have 0 new children.| wsd/COOLWSD.cpp:3682
mars 25 01:33:38 ************ coolwsd[19570]: Shutdown requested while starting up. Exiting.
mars 25 01:33:38 ************ coolwsd[19570]: wsd-19570-19570 2025-03-25 01:33:38.738311 +0100 [ coolwsd ] FTL  Shutdown requested while starting up. Exiting.| wsd/COOLWSD.cpp:3686
mars 25 01:33:38 ************ coolwsd[19570]: Forced Exit with code: 70
mars 25 01:33:38 ************ coolwsd[19570]: wsd-19570-19570 2025-03-25 01:33:38.738357 +0100 [ coolwsd ] FTL  Forced Exit with code: 70| common/Util.cpp:721
mars 25 01:33:38 ************ systemd[1]: coolwsd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=70/SOFTWARE
mars 25 01:33:38 ************ systemd[1]: coolwsd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
mars 25 01:33:38 ************ systemd[1]: Stopped coolwsd.service - Collabora Online WebSocket Daemon.
mars 25 01:33:38 ************ systemd[1]: coolwsd.service: Consumed 1.889s CPU time.

Journalctl is more verbose and displays the following errors

mars 20 11:22:20 ************ coolwsd[15832]: coolforkit version details: 24.04.13.2 - ded56d8ff7
mars 20 11:22:20 ************ coolwsd[15832]: frk-15832-15832 2025-03-20 11:22:20.162268 +0100 [ coolforkit-ns ] INF  RLIMIT_STACK is 8192000 bytes after setting it to 8192000 bytes.| common/Seccomp.cpp:295
mars 20 11:22:20 ************ coolwsd[15832]: frk-15832-15832 2025-03-20 11:22:20.162282 +0100 [ coolforkit-ns ] INF  Ignored setting RLIMIT_FSIZE to unlimited.| common/Seccomp.cpp:301
mars 20 11:22:20 ************coolwsd[15832]: frk-15832-15832 2025-03-20 11:22:20.162295 +0100 [ coolforkit-ns ] INF  Ignored setting RLIMIT_NOFILE to unlimited.| common/Seccomp.cpp:301
mars 20 11:22:20 ************ coolwsd[15832]: frk-15832-15832 2025-03-20 11:22:20.162338 +0100 [ coolforkit-ns ] DBG  About to init Kit UnitBase with test []| kit/ForKit.cpp:981
mars 20 11:22:20 ************ coolwsd[15832]: Neither /opt/collaboraoffice/program/libsofficeapp.so or /opt/collaboraoffice/program/libmergedlo.so exist.
mars 20 11:22:20 rafiki-nextcloud coolwsd[15832]: frk-15832-15832 2025-03-20 11:22:20.162448 +0100 [ coolforkit-ns ] FTL  Neither /opt/collaboraoffice/program/libsofficeapp.so or /opt/collaboraoffice/program/libmergedlo.so exist.| kit/Kit.cpp:4059
mars 20 11:22:20 ************ coolwsd[15832]: Failed to preinit lokit.
mars 20 11:22:20 ************ coolwsd[15832]: frk-15832-15832 2025-03-20 11:22:20.162478 +0100 [ coolforkit-ns ] FTL  Failed to preinit lokit.| kit/ForKit.cpp:1004
mars 20 11:22:20 ************ coolwsd[15832]: Forced Exit with code: 70
mars 20 11:22:20 ************ coolwsd[15832]: frk-15832-15832 2025-03-20 11:22:20.162512 +0100 [ coolforkit-ns ] FTL  Forced Exit with code: 70| common/Util.cpp:721

It seems that 2 libraries are missing and I have not been able to find them anywhere. AmI doing something wrong ? How to fix this

Many thanks.
PS : I have also tried to use buil-in CODE but I have not been able to solve redirection problems /nextcloud/apps/richdocumentscode/hosting/capabilities is visible from the internet but nextcloud cannot internally connect to it, it’s another story but if anybody has a trick out of the box (for nftables and nginx config files correct config.) I would be very grateful.

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hii @g-vidal Welcome to collabora online forums :slight_smile:

This issue typically arises when the Collabora Office core package is not installed.

Verify if Collabora Office is Installed

Collabora Online (coolwsd) depends on the Collabora Office core package to provide document editing capabilities. Check if it’s installed:

dpkg -l | grep collabora

If you do not see collaboraoffice* packages listed, that means the core office suite is missing.

2. Manually Install Collabora Office

Install the necessary packages manually:

This should install Collabora Office core in /opt/collaboraoffice/.

Try and let me know

Thanks
Darshan

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[quote=“darshan, post:2, topic:3548”]
dpkg -l | grep collabora
[/quote]`

Collabora seems properly installed (see my dpkg output further on) except if some package is missing (I am not able to check). It is installed in /opt/collaboraoffice/ as requested.
I investigate a bit further : there is no package collabora-online-brand in the archive as quoted in the tutorial but a code-brand. With apt search the situation is weird, collaboraoffice pretends not to be installed even if dpkg says that it is and files are really present !!
I’ll try to install collaboraoffice and report.

code-brand/inconnu,now 24.04-34 all  [installé]
  Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE) branding

collaboraoffice/inconnu 24.04.13-2 arm64
  Brand module for Collabora Office 24.04

collaboraoffice-debuginfo/inconnu 24.04.13-2 amd64
  Brand module for Collabora Office 24.04 (debug info)

dpkg -l | grep collabora

ii  collaboraoffice                           24.04.13-2                     amd64        Brand module for Collabora Office 24.04
ii  collaboraoffice-ure                       24.04.13-2                     amd64        UNO Runtime Environment
ii  collaboraofficebasis-calc                 24.04.13-2                     amd64        Calc module for Collabora Office 24.04
ii  collaboraofficebasis-core                 24.04.13-2                     amd64        Core module for Collabora Office 24.04
ii  collaboraofficebasis-draw                 24.04.13-2                     amd64        Draw module for Collabora Office 24.04
ii  collaboraofficebasis-en-us                24.04.13-2                     amd64        Language module for Collabora Office 24.04, language en_US
ii  collaboraofficebasis-extension-pdf-import 24.04.13-2                     amd64        PDF import extension for Collabora Office 24.04
ii  collaboraofficebasis-graphicfilter        24.04.13-2                     amd64        Graphic filter module for Collabora Office 24.04
ii  collaboraofficebasis-images               24.04.13-2                     amd64        Images module for Collabora Office 24.04
ii  collaboraofficebasis-impress              24.04.13-2                     amd64        Impress module for Collabora Office 24.04
ii  collaboraofficebasis-math                 24.04.13-2                     amd64        Math module for Collabora Office 24.04
ii  collaboraofficebasis-ooofonts             24.04.13-2                     amd64        3rd party free fonts for Collabora Office 24.04
ii  collaboraofficebasis-ooolinguistic        24.04.13-2                     amd64        Linguistic module for Collabora Office 24.04
ii  collaboraofficebasis-writer               24.04.13-2                     amd64        Writer module for Collabora Office 24.04
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We are on the good track but not yet arrived !
I reinstalled with sudo apt install --reinstall collaboraoffice collaboraoffice-dict-fr collaboraofficebasis-calc collaboraofficebasis-core collaboraofficebasis-extension-pdf-import collaboraofficebasis-fr collaboraofficebasis-graphicfilter collaboraofficebasis-images collaboraofficebasis-impress collaboraofficebasis-libreofficekit-data collaboraofficebasis-math collaboraofficebasis-ooofonts collaboraofficebasis-ooolinguistic collaboraofficebasis-python-script-provider collaboraofficebasis-writer collaboraofficebasis-xsltfilter
(the --reinstall option is just to overwrite the doubtfull installs) then sudo apt install --reinstall coolwsd and finally all the sudo coolconfig ...

collabora is now found but not /libmergedlo.so another package should miss, but which one ?
Thanks for your help @darshan !

TRC  dlopen(/opt/collaboraoffice/program/libmergedlo.so, RTLD_GLOBAL|RTLD_NOW)| kit/Kit.cpp:4035
FTL  Failed to load /opt/collaboraoffice/program/libmergedlo.so:
Failed to preinit lokit.
FTL  Failed to preinit lokit.| kit/ForKit.cpp:1004
Forced Exit with code: 70
FTL  Forced Exit with code: 70| common/Util.cpp:721
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Hi @g-vidal! Glad to see the error has changed :slightly_smiling_face:

I’ll dig into the logs further and see if I can find anything helpful. Also let me know if you find the solution will be good for other user if they encounter similar issue

Cheers
Darshan

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Sorry, I have been a bit lazy waiting another miracle from you :innocent: :wink:…
Looking for it in python world I found

merge3 bad luck :
A Python implementation of 3-way merge of texts.

Given BASE, OTHER, THIS, tries to produce a combined text incorporating the changes from both BASE->OTHER and BASE->THIS. All three will typically be sequences of lines.

But looking for it in java world worked !

Fichier 	Paquets
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so 	libreoffice-core, libreoffice-core-nogui [non mips64el]

then

sudo apt install libreoffice-core-nogui
sudo cp /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so /opt/collaboraoffice/program

And ooooopps we are facing a major dependency mess. At every start it requests Ă a new *lo.so lib ! All those are finally provided by creating an LD_LIBRARY_PATH= /usr/lib/libreoffice/program to add the necessary path.

The new problem is :

libicuuc.so.73: cannot open shared object file

Unfortunately the bookworm version for libicuuc.so is 72 and not 73 ! (trixie is 76 !) I have use the shameful trick sudo ln -s libicuio.so.72.1 ./libicuio.so.73

But all drives always to :
FTL Failed to load /opt/collaboraoffice/program/libmergedlo.so even if it is there

ls /opt/collaboraoffice/program/libmergedlo.so
/opt/collaboraoffice/program/libmergedlo.so*

My feeling is that the upgrades to buster and bookworm have changed deep things in the system and we need to recompile on a fresh debian or ubuntu that will not inherit dust of previous installs. (I am not dev and did not study computer science,please forgive this remark if dummy).

Finally I jumped over this trp by editing /etc/ld.so.conf.d/x86_64-linux-gnu.conf and adding /opt/collaboraoffice/program and /usr/lib/libreoffice/program then linked sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/unorc /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/services.rdb /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/types.rdb /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu to fall into the final hole :
SIG Fatal signal received: SIGSEGV code: 1 for address: 0x8 which is definately too deep for me !

Next step seems to me to try to recompile, I tried before this discussion but it was real a pain beyond my competencies and I gave up. It seems that dependencies are note properly handled for bookworm in the scripts or source code.

I have succeeded the compilation Two packages are missing in dpendencies libzstd-dev and xvfb (for make check). check failed on `cypress_test_ but the rest was OK.
I cannot find inthe doc howto make a debian package even if There are som useful files in debian folder. Can you help please?

I stay tuned for any suggestion.

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oh okay i see the missing dependency can you please try to install this ?

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libzstd-dev xvfb

Maybe it will hopefully fix the issue

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I did and the compil finished properly. I am now trying to use the local install ater uninstalling the deb package. I may have to recompile to install in the usr/bin and not in the usr/local/bin or change the /lib/systemd/system/coolwsd.service.

I’ll keep on investigating

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I succeeded to compile online install it but I fall back into the same problem plus another one systemctl start coolwsd.service fails… (we’ll see that later).

this time it is looking for libsofficeapp.so and libmergedlo.so in the path where I dowloaded them and not in the place where online is installed. My feeling is that the management of dependencies fails because the workaround to work without installing a full collabora office does not manage properly the location of the libreoffice libs.

I wil try the clean procedure.

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Awesome :tada: @g-vidal . I am really happy to see the progress.

I am also trying to find the last bit but if you finish it first please ping me it will be really helpful :slight_smile:

Thanks
Darshan

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Thanks for your time and patience @darshan.
libreoffice compilation is progressing smoothly at full load…

Let me clarify two points from This doc, in the case of recommended procedure.

  1. Do we have to install libreoffice
  2. Do we declare export LOCOREPATH=$(pwd) in the same way as in the ugly procedure ?
    • If yes it should be the first element of chapter Building CODE instead of being the last of chapter Option B - Download a Daily-Built Archive of LibreOffice (Quick & Dirty)
    • if not how do we handle the --with-lokit-path and --with-lo-path options to compile CODE

EDIT
I guess i have found the solution, declare LOCOREPATH from inside libreoffice folder.
Finished libreoffice compilation and coolwsd compilation and install.

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Getting closer to the solution but…

It seems that the full compilation of libreoffice yields successful compilation of coolwsd that starts and runs further than before (?) but it fails with the following messages (when started with command sudo -u cool /usr/bin/coolwsd --version --o:sys_template_path=/opt/cool/systemplate --o:child_root_path=/opt/cool/child-roots --o:file_server_root_path=/usr/share/coolwsd --o:cache_files.path=/opt/cool/cache ) :

frk-783477-783477 2025-03-28 18:54:13.989655 +0100 [ coolforkit-caps ] ERR  Capability cap_sys_chroot is not set for the coolforkit program.| kit/ForKit.cpp:247                                                                       
frk-783477-783477 2025-03-28 18:54:13.989764 +0100 [ coolforkit-caps ] ERR  Capability cap_fowner is not set for the coolforkit program.| kit/ForKit.cpp:247                                                                           
frk-783477-783477 2025-03-28 18:54:13.989801 +0100 [ coolforkit-caps ] ERR  Capability cap_chown is not set for the coolforkit program.| kit/ForKit.cpp:247                                                                            
Capabilities are not set for the coolforkit program.
frk-783477-783477 2025-03-28 18:54:13.989857 +0100 [ coolforkit-caps ] FTL  Capabilities are not set for the coolforkit program.| kit/ForKit.cpp:995      
Please make sure that the current partition was *not* mounted with the 'nosuid' option.
frk-783477-783477 2025-03-28 18:54:13.989896 +0100 [ coolforkit-caps ] FTL  Please make sure that the current partition was *not* mounted with the 'nosuid' option.| kit/ForKit.cpp:996                                                
If you are on SLES11, please set 'file_caps=1' as kernel boot option.
frk-783477-783477 2025-03-28 18:54:13.989946 +0100 [ coolforkit-caps ] FTL  If you are on SLES11, please set 'file_caps=1' as kernel boot option.| kit/ForKit.cpp:997

still investigating…
EDIT
Thanks to this post from anahuac I solved the capabilities

sudo setcap cap_fowner,cap_chown,cap_mknod,cap_sys_chroot=ep coolforkit-caps
sudo setcap cap_sys_admin=ep coolmount

AND … we fall again in the same problem :sob: :sob: :

frk-783573-783573 2025-03-28 19:16:18.145853 +0100 [ coolforkit-caps ] FTL  Neither /home/*****/Logiciels/Collabora/libreoffice/instdir/program/libsofficeapp.so or /home/*****/Logiciels/Collabora/libreoffice/instdir/program/libmergedlo.so exist.| kit/Kit.cpp:4074                                                     
Failed to preinit lokit.
frk-783573-783573 2025-03-28 19:16:18.146113 +0100 [ coolforkit-caps ] FTL  Failed to preinit lokit.| kit/ForKit.cpp:1004                                     
Forced Exit with code: 70
frk-783573-783573 2025-03-28 19:16:18.146218 +0100 [ coolforkit-caps ] FTL  Forced Exit with code: 70| common/Util.cpp:721

It can’t read because user cool does not have acces to my home. A workaround is maybe to compile from cool home, the libraries being then readable. I’ll check.

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At last some good news !

office version details: { "ProductName": "Collabora Office", "ProductVersion": "24.04", "ProductExtension": ".14.0", "BuildId": "9751c938364a0961142e507e74eb27ab6902f7c3", "BuildConfig": "'--enable-hardening-flags' '--enable-mpl-subset' '--with-vendor=Collabora' '--disable-community-flavor' '--with-branding=icon-themes/galaxy/brand_cp' '--with-system-dicts' '--with-myspell-dicts' '--with-system-zlib' '--disable-poppler' '--enable-cairo-rgba' '--without-system-cairo' '--without-system-fontconfig' '--without-system-freetype' '--without-system-graphite' '--without-system-harfbuzz' '--without-system-openssl' '--without-system-libpng' '--without-system-libxml' '--without-system-jpeg' '--without-system-expat' '--without-system-curl' '--without-system-icu' '--without-system-nss' '--without-system-jars' '--without-system-postgresql' '--without-java' '--without-junit' '--without-help' '--with-linker-hash-style=both' '--with-fonts' '--with-docrepair-fonts' '--enable-noto-font' '--with-galleries=no' '--with-theme=colibre colibre_svg' '--with-external-thes-dir=/usr/share/mythes' '--with-external-hyph-dir=/usr/share/hyphen' '--with-external-dict-dir=/usr/share/hunspell' '--disable-dbus' '--enable-extension-integration' '--disable-odk' '--disable-kf5' '--disable-gtk3' '--disable-qt5' '--disable-gstreamer-1-0' '--disable-evolution2' '--disable-gio' '--disable-gui' '--disable-scripting-beanshell' '--disable-scripting-javascript' '--disable-ext-wiki-publisher' '--disable-report-builder' '--disable-ext-nlpsolver' '--disable-sdremote' '--disable-sdremote-bluetooth' '--disable-postgresql-sdbc' '--disable-firebird-sdbc' '--disable-randr' '--disable-ext-numbertext' '--enable-epm' '--enable-python=internal' '--disable-online-update' '--disable-dconf' '--enable-mergelibs' '--with-package-format=deb rpm' '--enable-release-build' '--with-lang=ar bg ca cs da de el en-US en-GB eo es eu fi fr gl he hr hu id is it ja ko lo nb nl oc pl pt pt-BR sq ru sk sl sv tr uk vi zh-CN zh-TW' '--disable-lotuswordpro' '--disable-lpsolve' '--enable-symbols' '--enable-sal-log' '--without-templates' '--with-buildconfig-recorded' '--without-package-format' '--prefix=/usr' '--srcdir=/home/cool/Logiciels/Collabora/libreoffice' '--enable-option-checking=fatal'" }
Ready to accept connections on port 9980.

It seems to work like a charm with the command :

sudo -u cool /usr/bin/coolwsd --version --o:sys_template_path=/home/cool/Logiciels/Collabora/online/systemplate --o:child_root_path=/home/cool/Logiciels/Collabora/online/child-roots --o:file_server_root_path=/usr/share/coolwsd --o:cache_files.path=/home/cool/Logiciels/Collabora/online/cache

What I did is :

  • transform cool user as a normal user with home and bash shell
  • compile with cool user libreoffice /collabora fork following collabora doc
  • compile with cool user online with LOCOREPATH being the libreoffice path and option --prefix=/usr
  • install online

Remaining problem systemd service fails with :
coolwsd.service: Failed at step NAMESPACE spawning /usr/bin/coolwsd: No such file or directory

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Some more good neews :

sudo systemctl status coolwsd
â—Ź coolwsd.service - Collabora Online WebSocket Daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/coolwsd.service; disabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sun 2025-03-30 14:11:18 CEST; 11min ago
   Main PID: 1973681 (coolwsd)
      Tasks: 12 (limit: 19134)
     Memory: 447.5M
        CPU: 9.014s
     CGroup: /system.slice/coolwsd.service
             ├─1973681 /usr/bin/coolwsd --version --o:sys_template_path=/home/cool/Logiciels/Collabora/online/systemplate --o:child_root_path=/home/cool/Logiciels/Collabora/online/child-roots --o:file_server_>
             ├─1973685 /usr/bin/coolforkit-ns --systemplate=/home/cool/Logiciels/Collabora/online/systemplate --lotemplate=/home/cool/Logiciels/Collabora/libreoffice/instdir --childroot=/home/cool/Logiciels/C>
             ├─1973691 /usr/bin/coolforkit-ns --systemplate=/home/cool/Logiciels/Collabora/online/systemplate --lotemplate=/home/cool/Logiciels/Collabora/libreoffice/instdir --childroot=/home/cool/Logiciels/C>
             ├─1973703 /usr/bin/coolforkit-ns --systemplate=/home/cool/Logiciels/Collabora/online/systemplate --lotemplate=/home/cool/Logiciels/Collabora/libreoffice/instdir --childroot=/home/cool/Logiciels/C>
             ├─1973704 /usr/bin/coolforkit-ns --systemplate=/home/cool/Logiciels/Collabora/online/systemplate --lotemplate=/home/cool/Logiciels/Collabora/libreoffice/instdir --childroot=/home/cool/Logiciels/C>
             └─1973705 /usr/bin/coolforkit-ns --systemplate=/home/cool/Logiciels/Collabora/online/systemplate --lotemplate=/home/cool/Logiciels/Collabora/libreoffice/instdir --childroot=/home/cool/Logiciels/C>

To reach this workaround I used the following /lib/systemd/system/coolwsd.service with the following modifications :

  • comment EnvironmentFile #EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/coolwsd
  • comment ProtectHome #ProtectHome=yes
  • replace :
    #ExecStart=/usr/bin/coolwsd --version \
    #--o:sys_template_path=/opt/cool/systemplate \
    #--o:child_root_path=/opt/cool/child-roots \
    #--o:file_server_root_path=/usr/share/coolwsd \
    #--o:cache_files.path=/opt/cool/cache

with :

    ExecStart=/usr/bin/coolwsd --version \
    --o:sys_template_path=/home/cool/Logiciels/Collabora/online/systemplate \
    --o:child_root_path=/home/cool/Logiciels/Collabora/online/child-roots \
    --o:file_server_root_path=/usr/share/coolwsd \
    --o:cache_files.path=/home/cool/Logiciels/Collabora/online/cache

I hope this workaround may enable to find a proper procedure. Thanks for the help, ready to test a new procedure.

using compilation in /home/cool

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Hi @darshan, to finish up with my analysis I tried to reinstall from debian packages and it failed ! I t seems that :

  • even if the search package says so the lib libsofficeapp.so is not present in any package meanwhile it is present in the compiled by hand libreoffice with path .inststdir/program/
  • using the instdir from libreoffice the compilation finishes properly but I am wondering if the build package process copies all the vecessaries libs in /opt/collaboraoffice/program

I have tried to copy the lib files from libreoffice/instdir/program into the package installed coolwsd but I get SIGSEV errors.
Could you please tell me howto build the debian package from my compilation and I’ll try to install it and report.

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Hi @darshan At last a fully operational Nextcloud+CollaboraOnline !
The problem that triggered this work was missing libraries after a debian package installation.

The successful process is described in some previous messages, to summarize :

  • create full capability cool user (with, when needed, sudo group membership)
  • download (git) and compile collabora-libreoffice as described in the build doc
  • create a folder and copy both include and instdir from _libreoffice compilation\ f`older
  • download (git) collaboraonline
  • configure with lo-path and lokit-path pointing to the created folder as example --with-lo-path=/home/cool/collabora/instdir --with-lokit-path=/home/cool/collabora/include (this enables to remove the huge libreoffice folder. I have also tried to find which libraries are necessary but there are so many dependencies that I gave up even if the instdir is big)
  • sudo make install
  • amend /lib/systemd/system/coolwsd.service with the correct values
[Unit]
Description=Collabora Online WebSocket Daemon
After=network.target
[Service]
#EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/coolwsd
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/coolwsd --version \
--o:sys_template_path=/home/cool/collabora/systemplate \
--o:child_root_path=/home/cool/collabora/child-roots \
--o:file_server_root_path=/usr/local/share/coolwsd \
--o:cache_files.path=/home/cool/collabora/cache
KillSignal=SIGINT
TimeoutStopSec=120
User=cool
KillMode=mixed
Restart=always
LimitNOFILE=infinity:infinity
ProtectSystem=strict
ReadWritePaths=/opt/cool /var/log /home/cool/collabora
#ProtectHome=yes
PrivateTmp=yes
ProtectControlGroups=yes
CapabilityBoundingSet=CAP_FOWNER CAP_CHOWN CAP_SYS_CHROOT CAP_SYS_ADMIN
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Don’t forget to release protection on on home (maybe unsecure ?)

To the devs, my feeling is that debian packages do not carry anymore the two missing libraries which cause complex dependency problems because adding the libs in the path fails; I have not been able to list the dependencies and some of them overlap libreoffice ones.
For those who want to integrate coolwsd in Nextcloud in a VM , I would advice s to build with separate web servers with applications installed in the webroot. Using subpath might be possible for geeks but I did not succeed and I can tell that it is a big mess.
Thanks to all the COOL team for their work.

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