LOEclipse can't find LibreOffice or SDK (Linux)

[glen-the-grey]

I have tried to configure LOEclipse on two different Linux machines (one running Debian 14 Forky and one running openSUSE Tumbleweed) and both of them cannot find the LibreOffice binary nor the SDK.

I have installed “libreoffice” on both machines from their repositories as well as the “libreoffice-dev” package on Debian and “libreoffice-sdk” package on openSUSE.

The version info for LibreOffice on both machines is:

Version: 26.2.4.2 (X86_64)
Build ID: 620(Build:2)
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 7.0; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Debian package version: 4:26.2.4.2-1
Calc: threaded

And Eclipse version info:

Eclipse IDE for Java Developers (includes Incubating components)

Version: 2026-06 (4.40.0)
Build id: 20260604-0653

I installed LOEclipse from the marketplace in Eclipse and have tried all the sensible path names I can think of but the result is the same. If I put in “libreoffice” into the box it still gives the error.

Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated.

[glen-the-grey]

Well it seems I just needed to persist and I eventually found the correct directory…I’m not sure if I missed something in the documentation but this wasn’t immediately obvious.

Firstly, typing the path into the box doesn’t work for me…I had to click “Browse” every time otherwise it would just silently fail.

Next ignore “/usr/bin” the default binary directory, for LibreOffice this is a symlink to elsewhere on the system but if you follow that symlink and use the directory it points to that doesn’t work either (i.e., on Debian it points to “/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice”).

What you need to do is point it to two directories higher in the tree so use the following locations:

Debian:

/usr/lib/libreoffice
/usr/lib/libreoffice/sdk

openSUSE:

/usr/lib64/libreoffice
/usr/lib64/libreoffice/sdk