RPMs needed for Excel to work

We are on Oracle Linux Server release 8.5. The application uses LibreOffice to convert word/excel/ppt to pdf.

Downloaded LibreOffice_7.1.6_Linux_x86-64_rpm.tar.gz. I have only installed a subset of RPMs. PDF Conversion from Word & PPT works. But all forms of Excel fail (.xlsx, .xls, .csv) fail. Here is the error I see from the command line:

[opc@porappd1 RPMS]$ /usr/lib64/libreoffice7.1/program/soffice --headless --convert-to pdf --outdir /tmp/ /tmp/20211011.xlsx
Error: source file could not be loaded

For excel to pdf conversion, do I need to install all RPMs or is there a basic list of RPMs that I need to install?

Thanks in advance,
Prakash

Just install all. You wouldn’t gain much by omitting 3 or 4 RPMs or so.

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