This quick guide explains how you can fix the LibreOffice requires a Java runtime environment (JRE) error.

LibreOffice – the free office suite requires Java runtime environment for some of its own functionalities. For example, some of the plugins, extensions, Python macros require Java Runtime Environment (JRE) to work.

Lack of JRE, would cause the below error in LibreOffice:

LibreOffice requires a Java runtime environment (JRE) to perform this task. Please install a JRE (and libreoffice-java-common) and restart LibreOffice.