If you are using newer versions of Open Office or Libre Office on a macintosh computer you might experience the dreaded JRE error. This error causes all sorts of problems including causing the program to freeze and making it impossible to cancel out of some dialogue boxes.
Fortunately, there is a fix. For those of you who need a quick and simple fix, I recommend using neo office 3.1, which does not experience these issues. For those of you who want to use the latest and greatest from openoffice.org or LibreOffice, there is a relatively simple fix.
First, you will need to make sure your office program is closed.
Next, go to finder and control+click your office program’s icon. On the menu that appears, select “Show Package Contents”.
Then open the folders:
Contents > basis-link > ure-link > lib
You’re almost there! Only three more steps!
Now you need to move the files “libjvmfwk.dylib.3” and “sunjavaplugin.dylib” to the trash.
Finally, download these replacement files: libjvmfwk.dylib.3 and sunjavaplugin.dylib and put them in the folder you just deleted the originals from.
Now when you restart Open Office/Libre Office select:
[Program Name] >Preferences > [Program Name] > Java
Select the radio button and click OK.
All done! Your program should now work correctly!
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Superb!
Nice clear tutorial.
Being trawling the Internet for a solution to the problems of freezing and crashing that I have been experiencing with LibreOffice on my MacBookPro.
Have a triple boot with LibreOffice running on Linux Mint 9, Mac OS X 10.6.7 and Windows 7 (appears to work fine on Linux and Windows, but have been having a lot of problems on Mac OS X)
Feel confident that it has solved the freezing, crashing etc
Many thanks
Lifesavers! Great tutorial, great service providing the replacement libraries. many thanks!!
(Go Gators – UF class of ’89)
Hi
I binned the two offending files but the link to the new ones won’t work (I’ve been trying for about a week) and now I can’t use libreoffice at all!
Hi Elaine, this is a very old post. Have you tried installing one of the new versions of Libre Office? If that doesn’t work I can try and track down these files for you as the open office website that originally hosted them does appear to be offline now.