What to do about LibreOffice databases

Apple leadership and product teams do not read or participate in these public, user-to-user support communities, and no, Apple is not working on Java support.

See Eric Root's, or Barney-15E's contributions here for links to either a Java 6, or Java 8 runtime (JRE) respectively.

Apple stopped supporting Java years ago, and refers those that need Java functionality in their applications (where it is not restricted by the application developer to Java 6), to get the Java 8 runtime (JRE) from Oracle. LibreOffice (currently 5.4.1.2) has certain features that require Java runtime installation, and among those is the Base database. Once Java is installed, one visits the LibreOffice Preferences : Advanced, and select Use a Java runtime environment.

Have you installed Java on the Mac? Check System Preferences for a Java pane.

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I would suppose that Eric's link will not be what you need. It only installs a web plugin and you likely need full Java support. That you must get from Oracle.com.

The most current JDK for Java SE is here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

You should contact LibreOffice support or their community forum. There are going to be vastly more LibreOffice users on their support site than are here. I doubt Java will have any effect on the Landscape/Portrait issue. Sounds more like a bug in the LibreOffice program itself.

You might also try installing Apple's Java 6 (and possibly just use that), along with Oracle's Java 8 JDK.

LibreOffice may depend on Apple's various Java helper apps which are not installed by default anymore. I don't know if the Oracle JDK installs those helper functions.

Hello Ambimom,

LibreOffice is often touted as a replacement for Microsoft Office. To make a long story short, it isn't. To make the story even more painful, some parts of LibreOffice require Java, which is a big can-o-worms.

What you have to do is install the current Oracle JDK. It may work then. See this post from the LibreOffice community forums: https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/64335/libreoffice-base-51-for-mac-java-r untime-issues/

Databases for end users have always been a problem. Microsoft Access is not part of Microsoft Office for the Mac. I'm afraid you are on your own to find a new database and figure out how to import your data. If you can get the database in LibreOffice working, I suggest you explore what export formats it supports and then look for web-based or native Mac databases that can import those formats. I can't recommend any. I used developer-oriented databases.

because there is no more jre or jdk,

Explain, please. Are you saying there isn't a JDK or JRE at all (Oracle has lots of them), or there isn't a capability in LibreOffice for Mac to use Java?