unoconv dying on ubuntu 12.04

I have read other posts regarding upgrading unoconv.

I get the following error when I try to convert PPT to PDF using the command

Code:

unoconv -f pdf hold.ppt

unoconv: RuntimeException during import phase:

Office probably died. Unsupported URL <file:///var/www/hold.ppt>: ""

The version I have is:

Code:

unoconv 0.6

platform posix/linux2

python 2.7.3 (default, Feb 27 2014, 19:58:35)

[GCC 4.6.3]

LibreOffice 4.2

Does anyone have any ideas? I have managed to get it working on my dev env which is debian and actually has LibreOffice3.5.

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