Add this section to your buildout configuration:

[buildout]
parts =
    ... your other parts ...
    openoffice
...

[openoffice]
recipe = z3c.recipe.openoffice

This will just download and install openoffice in your buildout

To create the pyuno egg add the fallowing config:

[openoffice]
recipe = z3c.recipe.openoffice
install-pyuno-egg = yes

To also change openoffice python, add the following config:

[openoffice]
recipe = z3c.recipe.openoffice
install-pyuno-egg = yes
hack-openoffice-python = yes

By default it will fetch version OpenOffice 2.3 but you might want to install from another location or another version like this:

[openoffice]
recipe = z3c.recipe.openoffice
install-pyuno-egg = yes
hack-openoffice-python = yes
version = 2.3.1
download-url = ftp://ftp.openoffice.skynet.be/pub/ftp.openoffice.org/stable/2.3.1/OOo_2.3.1_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz

For this to work an OpenOffice process need to be running in background. As this require a X server and you don't want to install a real X server in a production environment you might want to use Xvfb. Here are the lines we use to start openoffice:

$ cd myBuildout
$ Xvfb :3 -ac -screen sn 800x600x16 &
$ ./parts/openoffice/program/soffice "-accept=socket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;" -display :3 &
$ ./bin/instance start

This recipe only works with linux at the moment

Original author: Martijn Faassen - faassen@infrae.com

Modified by: Jean-Francois Roche - jfroche@affinitic.be