Zotero LibreOffice plugin installation fails on Mac M1 — Report ID 1110402342

Bonniefd
Hello,

(Written with the assistance of an AI)

Report ID: 1110402342

I cannot install Zotero LibreOffice Integration on my MacBook Air M1 (2020), running macOS Sequoia.

My configuration:

Zotero updated from 9.0.6 to version 10

LibreOffice 26.2.6.3 (Apple Silicon / ARM64)

Eclipse Temurin JDK 21 (ARM64), correctly selected in LibreOffice settings

I previously tried LibreOffice 26.8.1 and Java 25 and Java 27, with the same problem.

I have also tried:

Automatic installation through Zotero preferences

Manual installation of the .oxt extension

Removing the faulty extension

Resetting the LibreOffice user profile

Completely reinstalling LibreOffice

Restarting my Mac

During manual installation, I received a MalformedVersionException error. The LibreOffice Extension Manager also reported that the extension status was unknown.

After updating Zotero, the automatic installation wizard now opens, but ends with "Installation Failed".

I also use Zotero with Microsoft Word and need to preserve that integration.

Could you please examine my error report and help identify the cause?

Thank you very much.
  • adomasven Zotero Team
    You should install JDK 27 from Oracle website, select it in LibreOffice, then close it and try manually installing the extension. If it doesn't work, take a screenshot of the error and upload it here.
  • adomasven Zotero Team
    @Bonniefd Correction, there is a bug in LibreOffice in parsing Java versions, and the new Oracle releases have triggered it (added an additional version number dot segment).

    Your options are to wait for a LibreOffice update, or install a Java version that doesn't have 5-segment version number, such as those distributed by Temurin or Zulu. AFAIK these updated Oracle JDKs have fixes for the discovered security vulnerabilities of last week, so it may be more prudent to wait for LibreOffice to release an update.
  • Bonniefd
    Thank you.
    So wait and see.
  • NAVEINANNAMALAI
    i had the same issue,download java from adoptium,the problem got resolved in my case,the java plugins from oracle doesent work for macos
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