Alpine-LibreOffice

Container for Alpine Linux + Libreoffice

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This image containerizes the Libreoffice suite for working with documents, also includes some free fonts e.g Ubuntu, OpenSans, Inconsolata etc.

Based on Alpine Linux from my alpine-openjdk8 image with GNU LibC and s6 init system overlayed in it.

The image is tagged respectively for the following architectures,

• armhf
• x86_64 (retagged as the latest )

armhf builds have embedded binfmt_misc support and contain the qemu-user-static binary that allows for running it also inside an x64 environment that has it.

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Get the Image

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Pull the image for your architecture it's already available from Docker Hub.

# make pull
docker pull woahbase/alpine-libreoffice:x86_64

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Run

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If you want to run images for other architectures, you will need to have binfmt support configured for your machine. multiarch, has made it easy for us containing that into a docker container.

# make regbinfmt
docker run --rm --privileged multiarch/qemu-user-static:register --reset

Without the above, you can still run the image that is made for your architecture, e.g for an x86_64 machine..

Before you run..

• This image already has a user alpine configured to drop privileges to the passed PUID/PGID which is ideal if its used to run in non-root mode. That way you only need to specify the values at runtime and pass the -u alpine if need be. (run id in your terminal to see your own PUID/PGID values.)

• Needs /tmp/.X11-unix/ mounted and $DISPLAY set inside the container.

• To use fonts installed in the host system, mount /usr/share/fonts inside the container.

• To preserve/load documents from the host system mount the /home/alpine dir in your local. By default mounts $PWD/data.

Running make starts libreoffice.

# make
docker run --rm -it \
  --name docker_libreoffice --hostname libreoffice \
  -e PGID=1000 -e PUID=1000 \
  -c 512 -m 2096m \
  -e DISPLAY=unix:0 \
  -v /usr/share/fonts:/usr/share/fonts:ro \
  -v data:/home/alpine \
  -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix \
  woahbase/alpine-libreoffice:x86_64

To start the editor directly without showing the splash screen add the --nologo flag along with the editor type e.g --writer, these are already preset as make targets so, make writer will launch writer ready to type.

# make writer
docker run --rm -it \
  --name docker_libreoffice --hostname libreoffice \
  -e PGID=1000 -e PUID=1000 \
  -c 512 -m 2096m \
  -e DISPLAY=unix:0 \
  -v /usr/share/fonts:/usr/share/fonts:ro \
  -v data:/home/alpine \
  -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix \
  woahbase/alpine-libreoffice:x86_64 \
  --writer --nologo

Other targets are calc, draw, impress, math, base, web and global.

Stop the container with a timeout, (defaults to 2 seconds)

# make stop
docker stop -t 2 docker_libreoffice

Removes the container, (always better to stop it first and -f only when needed most)

# make rm
docker rm -f docker_libreoffice

Restart the container with

# make restart
docker restart docker_libreoffice

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Shell access

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Get a shell inside a already running container,

# make shell
docker exec -it docker_libreoffice /bin/bash

set user or login as root,

# make rshell
docker exec -u root -it docker_libreoffice /bin/bash

To check logs of a running container in real time

# make logs
docker logs -f docker_libreoffice

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Development

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If you have the repository access, you can clone and build the image yourself for your own system, and can push after.

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Setup

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Before you clone the repo, you must have Git, GNU make, and Docker setup on the machine.

git clone https://github.com/woahbase/alpine-libreoffice
cd alpine-libreoffice

You can always skip installing make but you will have to type the whole docker commands then instead of using the sweet make targets.

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Build

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You need to have binfmt_misc configured in your system to be able to build images for other architectures.

Otherwise to locally build the image for your system. [ARCH defaults to x86_64, need to be explicit when building for other architectures.]

# make ARCH=x86_64 build
# sets up binfmt if not x86_64
docker build --rm --compress --force-rm \
  --no-cache=true --pull \
  -f ./Dockerfile_x86_64 \
  --build-arg ARCH=x86_64 \
  --build-arg DOCKERSRC=alpine-openjdk8 \
  --build-arg PGID=1000 \
  --build-arg PUID=1000 \
  --build-arg USERNAME=woahbase \
  -t woahbase/alpine-libreoffice:x86_64 \
  .

To check if its working..

# make ARCH=x86_64 test
docker run --rm -it \
  --name docker_libreoffice --hostname libreoffice \
  -e PGID=1000 -e PUID=1000 \
  woahbase/alpine-libreoffice:x86_64 \
  '--version'

And finally, if you have push access,

# make ARCH=x86_64 push
docker push woahbase/alpine-libreoffice:x86_64

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Maintenance

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Sources at Github. Built at Travis-CI.org (armhf / x64 builds). Images at Docker hub. Metadata at Microbadger.

Maintained by WOAHBase.