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I've come across unoconv which should do the job but I get the following error:-

unoconv -f pdf /home/bill/GWL-letter.odt

unoconv: RuntimeException during import phase:
Office probably died. Unsupported URL </home/bill/GWL-letter.odt>: "from LoadEnv::initializeLoading"
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GWL-letter.odt opened in Office Writer and exported as pdf. No problems and the pdf file is good

: $ unoconv -f pdf /home/bill/GWL-letter.odt
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unoconv: RuntimeException during import phase:
Office probably died. Unsupported URL </home/bill/GWL-letter.odt>: "from LoadEnv::initializeLoading"
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Install libreoffice-writer if not already installed:

sudo apt-get install libreoffice-writer

Whether or not unoconv was installed with libreoffice, run it once so it can complete configuration.

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    libreoffice-writer is already the newest version (1:6.0.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.10) – bill-lancaster Oct 30 '19 at 14:40
  • You can try to run libreoffice once (just libreoffice will do). It happened to me once, just one run and then unoconv started to work. – Eduardo Trápani Oct 30 '19 at 14:57
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    Thanks, but I still get the unsupported URL thing – bill-lancaster Oct 30 '19 at 15:22
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    @bill-lancaster Please open a sample document with LibreOffice Write then do File | Export as PDF as a troubleshooting test, as shown in https://askubuntu.com/questions/60778/how-can-i-convert-an-odt-file-to-a-pdf then let us know the result by going into the question with [edit] underneath the question. Maybe the LibreOffice latest version install went awry. Please do not use Add Comment; instead, please add the result of that test into your Question. – K7AAY Oct 30 '19 at 15:40