Bug 85745 - MacOs: LibreOffice can't be opened because the identity of developer cannot be confirmed
Summary: MacOs: LibreOffice can't be opened because the identity of developer cannot b...
Status: RESOLVED NOTOURBUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
4.3 Daily
Hardware: Other macOS (All)
: medium critical
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2014-11-01 20:24 UTC by Larry Mancuso
Modified: 2015-12-25 14:20 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Screenshot of dialog showing problem (76.00 KB, image/png)
2014-11-14 19:54 UTC, Frank Griswold
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Description Larry Mancuso 2014-11-01 20:24:28 UTC
unable to open downloaded LibreOffice 4.3.3. get following msg

"LibreOffice" can;t be opened because the identity of developer cannot be confirmed.


Google chrome downloaded this file at 10:49 AM from download.cnet.com.

I tried several times downloading with the same result. I then downloaded 4.3.2.2 and it opens successfully.
Comment 1 Larry Mancuso 2014-11-01 20:26:43 UTC
unable to open downloaded LibreOffice 4.3.3. get following msg

"LibreOffice" can't be opened because the identity of developer cannot be confirmed.

Google chrome downloaded this file at 10:49 AM from download.cnet.com.

Tried several times downloading with the same result. Then downloaded 4.3.2.2 and it opens successfully.
Comment 2 Julien Nabet 2014-11-01 20:32:55 UTC
Larry: do you reproduce this if you download LO from official website,  http://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/
?
Comment 3 Julien Nabet 2014-11-01 20:34:10 UTC
Since I updated description, I just put again the OSX version of the reporter, 10.9.5
Comment 4 Frank Griswold 2014-11-14 19:54:11 UTC
Created attachment 109480 [details]
Screenshot of dialog showing problem
Comment 5 Frank Griswold 2014-11-14 19:56:00 UTC
This applies to version 4.3.4.1 (and happened also with 4.3.3.2). Both were downloaded directly from http://www.libreoffice.org/download. There is a work around, but the user experience is far from excellent
Comment 6 Julien Nabet 2014-11-14 20:44:59 UTC
Thank you for your feedback. I put it at new given the screenshot.

Alex: any idea?
Comment 7 QA Administrators 2015-12-20 16:07:33 UTC
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Comment 8 Alex Thurgood 2015-12-21 08:11:15 UTC
(In reply to Julien Nabet from comment #6)
> Thank you for your feedback. I put it at new given the screenshot.
> 
> Alex: any idea?

This is not a new problem. The workaround is either to turn off Gatekeeper momentarily before attempting to install LibreOffice, or else use the context menu on the app bundle and then "Open" to force Gatekeeper to allow the user an option to install despite the warning message.


As Frank has said, there is a workaround, but it is not elegant (avoiding Gatekeeper). However, that situation can not change for as long as LibreOffice released by TDF can not sign and release an Apple-approved build, which is why Collabora provide signed builds instead via the AppStore. We are in the same situation as Scribus, or Inkscape, or any other number of opensource projects in this regard. Why Firefox or Thunderbird don't seem to have this problem is beyond my ken (or perhaps they do, and I just haven't noticed).

I would love to be able to set this to CANTFIX, but will have to settle for WONTFIX.