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AdarshPanasri
Helper I
2 years ago

Root user access in synapse notebooks

Hello Everyone, I am trying to install LibreOffice in fabric, I am using the below commands to downlad and extract the tar files.   wget https://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/...
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AdarshPanasri
Helper I
2 years ago

Thanks for the response, but this is not what I was looking for, I want to install a linux package LibreOffice, I dont think this can be done using pip cmnds.

 

I am using the %%sh magic cmds to run the shell cmds but when trying to install the package It says you are not a root user.

 

 

My doubt is how do I get the rights be a super user. I tried with the Admin credentials for the workspace but still got the same error.

 

Any support is appreciated. 

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lbendlin
Super User
2 years ago

What do you plan to use LibreOffice for once it is installed?  Read Excel files?

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    AdarshPanasri
    Helper I
    2 years ago

    I intend to use it to Interact with doc files. As per my research I was not able to find a way to read/get content from doc file without converting it to docx first. And using LibreOffice should solve this.

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        AdarshPanasri
        Helper I
        2 years ago

        I tried with python-docx it is not compatible to work with doc files.