Collabora Online - Built-in CODE Server

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Andras Timar

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This app has to be installed and used together with the Nextcloud Office integration app.

Collabora Online is a powerful LibreOffice-based online office suite with collaborative editing, which supports all major documents, spreadsheet and presentation file formats and works together with all modern browsers.

  • This app provides a built-in server with all of the document editing features of Collabora Online.
  • Easy to install, for personal use or for small teams.
  • A bit slower than a standalone server and without the advanced scalability features.

System Requirements:

  • Linux running on x86-64 or arm64/aarch64
  • A glibc based distribution/container (musl libc is not supported)
  • Fontconfig (libfontconfig.so.1)
  • Additional requirements can be found in here

The download is rather big so it is possible you will experience a time-out when installing via the web interface. You can use the OCC command install the built-in server from the command-line instead:

sudo -u wwwrun php -d memory_limit=512M ./occ app:install richdocumentscode

Where wwwrun is the user of your web server. This is www-data on Debian, Ubuntu and derivatives, wwwrun on SUSE based distributions, apache on Red Hat/Fedora and http on Arch linux and derivatives.

Updates can be done like this:

sudo -u wwwrun php -d memory_limit=512M ./occ app:update --all

Of course, alternatively you could increase memory usage and PHP time-outs by default, see the Nextcloud documentation.

Additional troubleshooting tips can be found here.

Releases

Nextcloud version Stable channel Nightly channel All releases
31 24.4.1103 - 31
30 24.4.1103 - 30
29 24.4.1103 - 29
28 24.4.1103 - 28
27 24.4.1103 - 27
26 24.4.1103 - 26
25 24.4.1103 - 25
24 23.5.5 - 24
23 23.5.5 - 23
22 23.5.5 - 22
21 23.5.5 - 21
20 23.5.5 - 20
19 23.5.5 - 19

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bumpsy
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1 year, 3 months ago

do NOT install on a nextcloud instance running on TrueNAS Scale without being absolutely positive that everything is configured correctly! Otherwise, it will break your web UI and render it unusable until the app is removed via shell commands.

Apparently, you can find instructions for configuration here, but I haven't tried it myself: https://help.nextcloud.com/t/nextcloud-collabora-integration/151879

Instructions to remove the app via shell, if you have the problem, can be found here: https://help.nextcloud.com/t/how-to-remove-apps-from-nextcloud-inside-truenas-scale/172279

Anonymous
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2 years, 1 month ago

Development (bots not counted in): continuous (developed by upstream Collabora!)

Issues: almost the same number of solved/unresolved ones (and a bit high number of them)

Project management: no

Documentation: brief (readme)

Localization: continuous

Releases: frequent (changelog)

Wang Zhijun
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2 years, 3 months ago

Can be used normally to open English documents, but when opening Chinese documents garbled, is there no font reason?

Anonymous
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3 years ago

Installed in seconds (through the GUI) and it works perfectly !

I previously used an Onlyoffice CE docker instance and it was much slower and complex to implement. Really happy with this one so far.

Olav Seyfarth
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3 years, 10 months ago

Seems to work a bit slower that OnlyOffice built-in document server, but saves fine and changes are available instantly in files view. Only one instance of richdocumentscode may be run on one IP, see https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/richdocumentscode/issues/37.