How to Install Collabora Online Development Edition on POP! OS Latest

Collabora Online Development Edition is an open-source tool for online document editing and collaboration. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Collabora Online Development Edition on POP! OS Latest.

Prerequisites

• A system running with a latest POP! OS
• sudo or root user privileges

Step 1: Update System Packages

Before starting any installation, let's update all the installed packages to their latest versions.

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

Step 2: Install Required Dependencies

Collabora Online Development Edition requires some dependencies to be installed on the system. So, let's install all the required dependencies.

sudo apt install -y wget gnupg2 dirmngr python3 python3-pip python3-setuptools python3-uno python3-requests python3-lxml python3-pil python3-psutil python3-pygments python3-anytree python3-cryptography ca-certificates

Step 3: Add Collabora Online Repository

Execute the following command to add the Collabora Online repository to the system.

echo 'deb https://www.collaboraoffice.com/repos/CollaboraOnline/CODE-ubuntu2004/ /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/collabora.list

Step 4: Add Collabora Online GPG key

Import the GPG key of Collabora Online.

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 0C54D189F4BA284D

Step 5: Install Collabora Online Development Edition

Once installation is complete, execute the below command to install Collabora Online Development Edition.

sudo apt install loolwsd code-brand -y

Step 6: Enable Collabora Online WOPI protocol

Collabora Online Development Edition requires the WOPI (Web Application Open Platform Interface) protocol to be enabled. Let's configure WOPI.

Run the following command to create a new file:

sudo nano /etc/loolwsd/loolwsd.xml

Paste the following content inside the file. Don't forget to replace the localhost and example.com with your own domain name or IP address.

<server_settings>
  <admin_console username="admin" password="admin" />
  <ssl>
    <enable>yes</enable>
    <termination>yes</termination>
    <cert_file_path>/etc/loolwsd/cert.pem</cert_file_path>
    <key_file_path>/etc/loolwsd/key.pem</key_file_path>
    <cipher_list>ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384</cipher_list>
  </ssl>
  <server_name>localhost|example.com</server_name>
  <server_id>collabora</server_id>
  <storage>
    <filesystem>
      <wopi host_root="/usr/share/loolwsd/wopi/" />
    </filesystem>
  </storage>
  <logging>
    <file enable="false"/>
    <syslog enable="true"/>
    <level value="trace"/>
    <logger name="sdk" level="trace"/>
    <logger name="wsd" level="trace"/>
  </logging>
  <net>
    <backlog>4096</backlog>
    <max_connections>100</max_connections>
    <ws max_message_size="134217728" inactivity_timeout_secs="86400">
      <frame_ancestors>
        <allow host="localhost" />
        <allow host="example.com" />
      </frame_ancestors>
    </ws>
  </net>
  <mount>
    <allow ".*"="."/>
  </mount>
  <global_settings>
    <url_components_filter>.*</url_components_filter>
  </global_settings>
</server_settings>

Step 7: Enable and Start the Collabora Online Services

To enable and start the Collabora Online services, run the following commands:

sudo systemctl start loolwsd.service
sudo systemctl enable loolwsd.service

Step 8: Open Port of Collabora Online on Firewall

Collabora Online works over HTTPS protocol that runs over port 9980. Allow this port on the firewall by running the below command:

sudo ufw allow https

Step 9: Verify the Installation

Let's verify the installation. Open your web browser and type https://localhost:9980/hosting/discovery or your server IP address:

https://[server_ip]:9980/hosting/discovery

You should see a similar output in your web browser:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<office:discovery xmlns:office="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:office:1.0" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:ooo="http://openoffice.org/2004/office" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:grddl="http://www.w3.org/2003/g/data-view#" xmlns:table="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:table:1.0" xmlns:text="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:text:1.0" office:version="1.2" office:xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:meta:1.0" office:mimetype="application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text">
  <office:body>
    <office:spreadsheet/>
    <office:presentation/>
    <office:chart/>
    <office:text/>
  </office:body>
</office:discovery>

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we learned how to install Collabora Online Development Edition on POP! OS Latest. Collabora Online provides a robust and feature-rich experience for document editing and collaboration.

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