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| eclipse version for mac os 10.6? [message #1719172] |
Tue, 05 January 2016 14:33  |
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Trying to install Eclipse 4.4 under Mac OS 10.6, using the installer app, I get the error message that JVM 1.7 or later is required. So:
- What's the most recent version of Eclipse that I could run, under Mac OS 10.6 and the 1.6.65 JRE?
- Or, maybe the installer needs a recent JRE but Eclipse doesn't? Could I install 4.4 from the command line?
- Or, could I install a current JDK (and JRE), and then use that JRE to run the installer and Eclipse?
I'm not a developer -- I just want Eclipse to write Python to do statistics -- so the less messing around I do from the command line, the more stable my machine will be.
Thanks for any help!
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| Re: eclipse version for mac os 10.6? [message #1719180 is a reply to message #1719178] |
Tue, 05 January 2016 17:14  |
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On 01/05/2016 02:06 PM, keni lu wrote:
> Updating the system isn't a great choice right now -- everything works,
> the change post- OS 10.6 is substantial, and the machine isn't very fast
> anyway.
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> So -- if I *don't* have Java 7, does someone know what the newest
> version of Eclipse is that I can run?
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> (And, yes, the problem is that Apple doesn't provide a newer Java for
> this old OS, and neither does Oracle provide an installer. I think there
> are workarounds to get a newer JDK on my machine, but that's definitely
> not my first choice.)
There's an option to back up to an Eclipse version that will work on
Java 6. I think the latest one would have been Indigo (or maybe Juno
too, but I don't think so). Indigo was a great release. Depending on
what you plan to do, you may be quite satisfied with it.
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| Re: eclipse version for mac os 10.6? [message #1719280 is a reply to message #1719180] |
Wed, 06 January 2016 13:42 |
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The Eclipse installer requires at least Java 1.7, there are no older versions of it that will work with 1.6. But I think Mars was the first release that had a hard requirement for 1.7+, so you should be able to download a Luna package and use that (Eclipse package releases are in alphabetical order by year, eg Indigo=2011, Juno=2012, Kepler=2013, Luna=2014, Mars=2015, Neon=2016...)
https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/release/luna/sr2
Just extract the archive of one of those downloads into a local user directory and run the eclipse executable. If that doesn't work, follow the instructions to point eclipse.ini to your installation of JDK.
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