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2023Dec26
I tried to install Apache OpenOffice 4.1.15 on my iMac running macOS Monterey 12.7.2

Result:
“OpenOffice” cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified.
macOS cannot verify that this app is free from malware.
Firefox downloaded this file today at 1:14 AM.

Now I have NO OpenOffice application program!
Please HELP!

Edit: Changed subject, was Apache OpenOffice 4.1.15 won't install on macOS Monterey 12.7.2          OpenOffice has been installed, but MacOS won't let you use it  Make your post understandable by others  -- MrProgrammer, forum moderator

Please read the Mac section of Instructions for Downloading and Installing Apache OpenOffice 4.0, 4.1 Versions

I think the information you require is in Q05/A05

b4integrity wrote: ↑Tue Dec 26, 2023 9:16 pm “OpenOffice” cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified.

[Solved] MacOS will not open OpenOffice.app
[Tutorial] Mac FAQ Q05/A05: MacOS won't let me run OpenOffice.

If this solved your problem please go to your first post use the Edit ☐ button and add [Solved] to the start of the Subject field. Select the green checkmark icon at the same time.

RoryOF wrote: ↑Tue Dec 26, 2023 9:55 pm Please read the Mac section of Instructions for Downloading and Installing Apache OpenOffice 4.0, 4.1 Versions

I think the information you require is in Q05/A05

Sorry, this does NOT solve the problem.
In System Preferences: Security & Privacy
there is NO Open Anyway button.

Please reply with info on how to fix the problem.
Every time before, Open Office installed just fine.

Why won't OpenOffice 4.1.15 install correctly now on macOS Monterey 12.7.2?

MrProgrammer wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 7:58 pm [Solved] MacOS will not open OpenOffice.app

Have you tried this one?

b4integrity wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 9:41 pm Please reply with info on how to fix the problem.

Had you said what you had tried first, replies may have been adjusted.
This is not the kind of comment that will motivate to help you.

b4integrity wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 9:41 pm In System Preferences: Security & Privacy there is NO Open Anyway button.

Here is your own post in the first of the two links I gave to you more than a week ago:

b4integrity wrote: ↑Mon Mar 29, 2021 10:17 pm "you need to try to open OpenOffice, get the warning window, and THEN go to the System Preferences, Security box, and THEN the 'open anyway' button appears."

b4integrity wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 9:41 pm Every time before, Open Office installed just fine.

This contradicts your post in the March 2023 topic where you encountered the same problem and had to ask for help.

b4integrity wrote: ↑Mon Mar 29, 2021 10:17 pm I had same problem trying to install OpenOffice 4.1.9 on macOS Big Sur Version 11.2.3

Q05/A05 (read the link I gave you back in December) says that this is a MacOS problem. MacOS is the software preventing you from launching OpenOffice. Apple makes lots of changes to MacOS. You need to ask Apple what to do for your specific release of MacOS. Or reading these topics may help:
2021-02-23: [Solved] Apple Big Sur Gatekeeper won't verify
2021-05-23: [Solved] Can't open application after download
2021-06-24: [Solved] New iMac won't accept Apache OpenOffice
2021-06-30: [Solved] OpenOffice.org.app needs to be updated for Catalina
2021-07-03: [Solved] Cannot open OpenOffice 4.1.10 on Catalina
2021-07-14: [Solved] Mac won't open OpenOffice
2021-08-19: [Solved] Mac/Catalina Not allowing update
2021-08-26: [Solved] OpenOffice Will Not Open
2021-10-04: [Solved] Mac won't open the application
2021-10-24: [Solved] BigSur 11.2.2 cannot verify OpenOffice
2021-11-16: [Solved] Can't open OpenOffice: Developer not verified
2022-01-14: [Solved] OpenOffice cannot be opened: Developer not verified
2023-04-28: [Solved] Warning: Developer cannot be verified

If this solved your problem please go to your first post use the Edit ☐ button and add [Solved] to the start of the Subject field. Select the green checkmark icon at the same time.

2024Jan05
Thanks for the suggestion; however it is the same fix about selecting the 'Open Anyway' button in Security & Privacy.
Previously this helpful info was useful:
"you need to try to open OpenOffice, get the warning window, and THEN go to the System Preferences, Security box, and THEN the 'open anyway' button appears."

Unfortunately, this does NOT work now. There is NO 'Open Anyway' button in Security & Privacy, even when going to Security & Privacy right after getting the warning window.

This is frustrating.

Else, try LibreOffice.

2024Jan06
Hagar,
Thanks for informing me of LibreOffice, I wasn't aware of it.
So - LibreOffice downloaded, installed and WORKING on macOS Monterey 12.7.2 !
Thanks Hagar!

Apache OpenOffice needs to fix their OpenOffice 4.1.15 application program to work on macOS!

The 'Open Anyway' button in Security & Privacy, was absent - but finally appeared!
OpenOffice 4.1.15 was then successfully installed.
Problem solved.