Hi,
Could anyone tell me the latest version of Libre Office, that runs on MacOS Catalina (10.15.7), and which has the clipboard bug fixed? (The particular clipboard bug is: if you copy text etc inside Libre Office, it won’t paste into other applications and if you copy text in other applications, it won’t paste into Libre Office.)
I see on the Internet that a lot of people have been having a bad time trying to use various flavours of 7.2.x and 7.3.x
Thanks in advance.
Without a reference to the bug in the bug tracker (or at least to the places where “people have been having a bad time”), it’s unclear if the problem you refer to actually affected macOS (e.g., personally I fixed several different similarly-looking clipboard bugs on Windows, so I can tell you that clipboard-related bugs are mostly OS-specific); and if so, then if it was fixed and in which version.
Thank you [EarnestA]
I tried running that version. I got the message “You have macOS 10.15.7. The application requires macOS 11.0 or later.”
Yes, I’m running Libre Office 7.1.2.2 on MacOS 10.15.7 and have been getting this problem for years. Just got round to doing something about it. However, I should mention that the problem suddenly seems to have become intermittent! Can’t replicate it tonight.
@ilmari, @cloph: could you please check if that’s correct, and if that could be fixed - according to the release notes telling that 25.8 does support 10.15?
25.8 should run on Intel Macs with 10.15. Apple Silicon never ran older macOS versions than 11. Or is it possible with some hackery? Would be good to get a verification from @reallydismayed1
yes, 25.8 should support 10.15 still, at least that’s what we tell Xcode to use as the minimum deployment target/create code for.
As Ilmari pointed out the Apple Silicon builds require 11 but that’s a given anyway, it was introduced with 11.
Since we switched our download page to default to the aarch64 version: did OP actually download the intel binaries?
Not sure whether macOS does metadata check before actually caring about the architecture…
Edit:
checking the binaries confirms that it still identifies as supporting 10.15 (excerpt from otool -l /Volumes/LibreOffice/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice):
Load command 9
cmd LC_BUILD_VERSION
cmdsize 32
platform 1
minos 10.15
sdk 26.2
ntools 1
tool 3
version 1230.1
I’ve deleted it now, so I can’t swear to choosing the …0.1 version.
From downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org
Your message wasn’t clear since you said you deleted the original version you tried with - so with the LibreOffice_25.8.0.1_MacOS_x86-64.dmg you can reproduce the problem (besides that not being the latest version of 25.8 – that would be 25.8.5.2, not even the final build that became 25.8.0) / that one also reports that the minimum version of macOS would be 11?
Correct. I can’t remember which I chose. But it would have been 25.8.0.1 or 25.8.5.2 because I would have had no reason to chose an intermediate version. And it would not have been 25.8.0 because that does not appear on that website.
Would it help you if I repeated the download and install attempt?
So I found this web page:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255260380?answerId=259792612022&sortBy=rank#259792612022
It’s a bit old and I expect later versions might work nowadays. Anyway, I installed version 7.6.7.1 from
https://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/
It seems to work without the bug that has been bugging me. I’ll give more feedback after a while.
It allows copying backwards and forwards between TextEdit and LibreOffice and also pasting .png files into the document. So, good.
However when saving the file, I am unable to paste text from either TextEdit or LibreOffice into the filename box. Is that a different bug?
See Bug 126638 - macOS: Can’t paste, copy, cut or ⌘A (select all) using keyboard shortcuts in Save-As field (workaround: comment 38)
Yes, they say it was fixed in LibreOffice version 24.8.0.
So I downloaded version 24.8.7.2
Seems to work fine on Catalina.
I’ll give more feedback after a while.
