LibreOffice 7.2.4 (native Apple Silicon) is officially released and works great on my M1 MacBook Pro with one big exception. The base app will not open my database created on the Intel version. I get error: connection to the external data source could not be established. No SDBC driver was found for the URL ‘sdbc:embedded:hsqldb’. It appears this has something to do with JAVA Runtime Environment. In Preferences/LibreOffice/Advanced the checkbox for selecting a JRE is grayed out. Also, no JRE appears in the box “installed on your machine” although I have JAVA 1.8 installed. I know JAVA is not Apple Silicon native but it seems to run fine in Rosetta II. The Intel version of Base worked fine on my M1 but I’m wondering if there are any suggestions on how to get the Apple Silicon version running?
Hi,I have exactly the same problem. Did you ever get a fix? I tried the open source version first but had a similar problem, Java JDK installation didn’t seem to help, so I tried Apple Store version, nada
“run fine in” is not sufficient. Compare it to Win32 an Win64, as written in the above Link:
LibreOffice can only use JRE with matching architecture
So do an additional install of Java for Arm64/Apple Silicon/M1
I’ve been messing around all morning and it appears in order for it to work the database needs to be registered