Package request: Collabora Online Development Edition & Nextcloud support

[turion]

Project description

Collaborative online document editing software. In particular, it should be possible to integrate this into a Nextcloud server. (CC Nextcloud maintainers @schneefux @bachp @globin @Ma27)

See an example where someone integrated this with Nextcloud, but Collabora in a docker container:
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/does-someone-run-nextcloud-onlyoffice/25382/2?u=turion

Ideally one could do services.nextcloud.code.enable = true; and there would be collabora support.

Metadata

• homepage URL: https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/
• source URL: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online
• license: "primarily under the MPLv2 license. Some parts are under other open source licences, see e.g. browser/LICENSE." (quoted from https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online#key-features)
• platforms: I guess linux only (the server bit)

[Steinhagen]

This would be really useful to have packaged for easy deployments.

[montchr]

Agreed, especially since Hetzner's managed Nextcloud instances (Storage Share) essentially requires the user to provide their own Collabora instance (their recommendations for OnlyOffice are no longer supported on the latest Nextcloud version).

[montchr]

Turns out there's some detailed documentation on the installation and configuration process, which was somewhat difficult to find from the project's website:

https://sdk.collaboraonline.com/docs/installation/index.html

[EricTheMagician]

There's more info on how to build it here:
https://collaboraonline.github.io/post/build-code/#build-code-n-lo

I started building the collabora variant of libreoffice and I'm running in to some issues with tests. It's not much so far but hopefully I can get it working in the next few weeks / months.

[amalgame21]

Any progress?
I attempted to install Nextcloud office with both Built-in CODE Server and collabora/code docker, both unsuccessful.

[EricTheMagician]

Progress is mostly stalled:
https://github.com/EricTheMagician/nixpkgs/tree/collabora

I've managed to package it up, but the service it self doesn't work because COOL will run each user instance in a chroot environment and I've been stalled on that front.

[diogotcorreia]

@EricTheMagician Any progress?
If you want, feel free to open a draft PR (is there already one?) so we can chime in and help!

[EricTheMagician]

@EricTheMagician Any progress? If you want, feel free to open a draft PR (is there already one?) so we can chime in and help!

No progress. I've been stuck on it for awhile.

[diogotcorreia]

Thank you! When I have some time (perhaps next week) I can try to help :)

[balintbarna]

Adding my +1, I'm running a Nextcloud server on a Hetzner VPS and a network mounted Storage Box. Everything works perfectly and my setup is not too complicated, however the OCI container for Collabora CODE takes up 2GB of my scarce SSD space and I assume it's not as efficient on RAM and CPU either. If I could easily add a Nix packaged alternative with 2-3 lines of configuration to my NixOS container on the VPS it could make it much leaner.