# Connecting with LibreOffice Snap under Ubuntu 16.04

**URL:** <https://discourse.jabref.org/t/connecting-with-libreoffice-snap-under-ubuntu-16-04/980>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [January 1, 2018, 4:18am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/connecting-with-libreoffice-snap-under-ubuntu-16-04/980 "2018-01-01T04:18:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alessander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Alessander](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/Alessander)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 4:55pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/connecting-with-libreoffice-snap-under-ubuntu-16-04/980/9 "2018-06-12T16:55:11Z")

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In my case, JabRef can connect to the Snap version of LibreOffice Writer, but only if the writer is executed via command line:

```
/snap/libreoffice/65/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice --writer --nologo &

```

`libreoffice-java-common` is still required, even though the [required jar files](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/3263#issuecomment-335836431) ("`unoil.jar`", “`jurt.jar`”, “`juh.jar`”, and “`ridl.jar`”) were in `/snap/libreoffice/65/lib/libreoffice/program/classes`. So, setting the manual connection to this folder is useless. I had to do:

```
sudo apt install libreoffice-java-common
```

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