unoconv doesn't work anymore on Fedora 17

[cosimoc]

Hi,

I am the developer of GNOME Documents [1], which application that uses unoconv to convert office format documents to PDF for view.
Since some time (probably due to LibreOffice 3.5?) unoconv stopped working on Fedora 17 (which is currently shipping LibreOffice 3.5.1.2). The error I get trying to convert an ODT from the command line (with git master) is the following:

[cosimoc@x201: unoconv]$ (master) ./unoconv -f pdf '/home/cosimoc/Documents/dropbox-tos.odt'
Unknown option --nocrashreport
Run 'soffice --help' to see a full list of available command line options.
Error: Unable to connect or start own listener. Aborting.

It would be great to see this fixed in time for the round of stable releases coming out in April. Thanks.

[1] http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-documents

[dagwieers]

Ask the Fedora maintainers why they build LibreOffice without the crashreport functionality. The upstream packages have no such problem. If this is Fedora specific, they will have to patch out the --nocrashreport option from the unoconv script as well.

[cosimoc]

This has now been fixed in Fedora, thanks for the help.

[dagwieers]

Thanks for following up. Can you provide me with a link to the bugzilla entry as a reference ? Thanks in advance !

[cosimoc]

I don't think there's any; I just sent a mail with a patch to the package maintainer, who then applied it to the Fedora package.

This is the relevant commit
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=unoconv.git;a=commit;h=26d66ab309b2d19a88f64950bf8a43f8d312b2ef

[dagwieers]

Ok, thanks. I prefer to have the Fedora LibreOffice feature-complete with upstream and other distributions but that's out of my control :-)