[ale] Libre Office & Mac

[Lightner, Jeffrey]

I really should have written it down at the time but apparently didn’t.  I don’t have that Mac to look at to remind me.

Today I found the suggestions about running xattr and trusting the app but my recollection was that even doing those at the time I finally figured out what I was clicking on was not the installed program but rather a local “virtual disk” it creates when you do the download.

This link is on the right track.
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/1171/how-do-i-install-an-application-from-a-dmg-disk-image

Based on what it says I *think* what I found at the time was the icon was a disk image (.dmg) file and I was able to drag the app to applications as it suggests.



From: Jim Kinney [mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2018 11:34 AM
To: Lightner, Jeffrey; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts; MICHAEL S KILPATRICK
Subject: Re: [ale] Libre Office & Mac

There's also a process to force the Mac to "trust" the application. See here:

https://www.wikihow.com/Install-Software-from-Unsigned-Developers-on-a-Mac

On Thu, 2018-05-10 at 15:14 +0000, Lightner, Jeffrey via Ale wrote:
I ran into that on installing LibreOffice on a neighbors mac.   It turned out that the icon I was clicking that I thought was to launch the installed software was instead and icon to use the virtual disk it had used for installing the software.   The actual run of the program should be done via a different item.  I’ll see if I can find the link that talks about that.


From: Ale [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of MICHAEL S KILPATRICK via Ale
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2018 10:48 AM
To: ale
Subject: [ale] Libre Office & Mac


Have moved my wife (a retired academic who only knows Macs) away from MIcrosoft to Libre Office.  Only one problem: Every time she tries to use Libre Office the Mac insists on "verifying", which takes 5 minutes -- or MORE!

Is there any way to make this annoying behaviour stop?



Sean

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