LibreOffice Question

[Sarcany]

freeradical wrote:
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Get a JDK, not a JRE.

https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies...loads.html

What's the difference?

Also, that JDK comes from Oracle, which made OpenOffice. Does that matter?
JDK is the developer package with lots of extra stuff for developers.

JRE is just the basics necessary for running the code.

LibreOffice is looking for the JDK.

And Oracle owns Java.
Why did they do that? Most ordinary users of an office program are not going to think that they should download some developer package.
Base doesn't need Java to run. Some of the advanced features in Base do. Why? Dunno.