https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104765
--- Comment #3 from Alex Thurgood <[email protected]> ---
You don't have to be a coder, but you do have to install an Oracle JDK. Not a
JRE.
Bug 94716 deals with the fact that Apple's obsolete Java6 had been dropped from
further security updates, and Oracle's JRE had a bug in it that made it
impossible for LO to instantiate a JVM, so one of the developers from NeoOffice
provided a patch that made LO work again, provided that the user had installed
an Oracle JDK.
That's the current solution. It works on my various OSX machines, and has done
for a while. If you also want to install Apple's old JavaforOSX, it is still
available for download from Apple's website, but that will only be of any use
to you for LibreOffice versions older than 5.x.
Once you have installed an Oracle JDK, you might have to force LO to look for
it in the Advanced settings entry under Preferences, or indicate the system
folder in which it is found in case LO can't find it on its own (there have
been reports that sometimes it is not automatically detected).
You will additionally have to remember to check on Oracle's website from time
to time to see if security updates have been released for the JDK as there is
no automatic update mechanism for JDKs in contrast to Oracle's JRE downloads.
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