Collabora Online Development Edition is a powerful and open-source office productivity suite based on LibreOffice. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps required to install Collabora Online Development Edition on nixOS Latest.
Before you start, make sure you have the following:
Collabora Online Development Edition depends on some libraries that are only available in the unstable repository. To enable the unstable repository, you need to edit the /etc/nixos/configuration.nix file as follows:
sudo nano /etc/nixos/configuration.nix
In the configuration.nix file, add the following lines:
nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true;
nixpkgs.config.packageOverrides = pkgs: {
unstable = import <nixpkgs> {
overlays = [
(self: super: {
collabora-online = super.collabora-online.override {
enablePreBuiltLibreOffice = true;
extraPackages = epkgs: with epkgs; [
dconf
gir1.2-freedesktop
gir1.2-glib-2.0
gir1.2-gtk-3.0
gir1.2-pango-1.0
libcairo2
libegl1-mesa
libgbm1
libgles2-mesa
libglib2.0-0
libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0
libgstreamer-plugins-good1.0-0
libgtk-3-0
libldap-common
libldap-2.4-2
libpam-pkcs11
libprotobuf10
libprotobuf-lite10
libsoup2.4-1
libssl1.1
libtool
libxmpp4r2
lsof
procps
];
enableCalc = true;
enableWriter = true;
enableImpress = true;
};
})
];
};
}
Save and exit the file.
Now that you have enabled the unstable repository, you can install Collabora Online Development Edition by running the following command:
sudo nix-env -iA unstable.collabora-online
This command will install Collabora Online Development Edition and all the required dependencies.
Once the installation is complete, you need to configure Collabora Online Development Edition.
Open the /etc/nixos/configuration.nix file again and add the following lines:
services.collabora-online = {
enable = true;
domain = "office.example.com";
certificateFile = "/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem";
certificateKeyFile = "/etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key";
extraParams = ''
<host name="localhost">
<socket>*</socket>
<socket-ssl>*</socket-ssl>
</host>
<host name="office.example.com">
<socket>*</socket>
<socket-ssl>*</socket-ssl>
</host>
'';
};
Replace office.example.com with your server's hostname.
Save and exit the file.
Finally, you need to reload the NixOS configuration for the changes to take effect. Run the following command:
sudo nixos-rebuild switch
This command will rebuild the NixOS configuration and restart all the services.
To verify that Collabora Online Development Edition is installed and working correctly, open a web browser and navigate to the following URL:
https://office.example.com/hosting/discovery
Replace office.example.com with your server's hostname.
You should see an XML file containing information about the Collabora Online Development Edition installation.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Collabora Online Development Edition on nixOS Latest.
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