Repair Permissions: For me, neither of those steps worked, but they’re good starting places. A connection between the 2 programs may have gone bad somehow. Here is the link for Snow Leopard (10.6):Ģ: Reinstall OpenOffice: If Java still is malfunctioning with OpenOffice, reinstall the program itself. You can redownload a version of Java from the Apple website at this time. The first 2 steps are pretty commonplace, so if you’ve already attempted to reinstall Java and/or OpenOffice, skip down to step 3 for other methods.Īpple normally provides the updates, though with the last Java update for 10.6, they have shifted Java support to Oracle (the company that owns Java). This will work for NeoOffice and LibreOffice as well. A defective JRE could result from a bad installation, or updating while Java is actually in use (this happened to me the first time, never install Java while OpenOffice is running). Pre-notes: OpenOffice requires the Java Runtime Environment to fully work. I had trouble trying to fix this at first, but it’s actually relatively simple to solve. Recently, I’ve had to fix defective JRE (java Runtime Environments) for 2 different machines running OpenOffice.

Jre for open office