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New to Eclipse - cannot operate on mac [message #1733377]

Fri, 27 May 2016 04:54

Rod Clark

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Registered: May 2016

Junior Member

I am new to Eclipse
I have a Mac pro with the latest OS. I installed Eclipse and keep getting the following message - Version 1.6.0_65of the JVM is not suitable for this product

I have updated my java
I have read the forum but cannot understand how to fix. Please help me.
Thanks

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Re: New to Eclipse - cannot operate on mac [message #1733411 is a reply to message #1733377]

Fri, 27 May 2016 09:52

Ed Merks

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Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Rod,

On the Mac the installer uses Eclipse's own native launcher. There is
apparently some issue with how it detects the JVM's you have available.
This bugzilla suggests you need to install a JDK, not just a JRE:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=487355

Apparently installing a JRE doesn't make it the default on the path.

This terminal command is used to find JVMs on the Mac

/usr/libexec/java_home -X

If you enter "java -version" on the terminal, what does it say the
default version for your machine is? This needs to be a 1.7 to run the
installer and there needs to be a 1.8 to run Neon versions of Eclipse.

On 27.05.2016 10:08, Rod Clark wrote:
> I am new to Eclipse
> I have a Mac pro with the latest OS. I installed Eclipse and keep
> getting the following message - Version 1.6.0_65of the JVM is not
> suitable for this product
>
> I have updated my java I have read the forum but cannot understand how
> to fix. Please help me.
> Thanks

Ed Merks
Professional Support: https://www.macromodeling.com/

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Re: New to Eclipse - cannot operate on mac [message #1741227 is a reply to message #1733411]

Wed, 24 August 2016 02:20

Edwing Ariza

Messages: 1
Registered: August 2016

Junior Member

Hi I am having the same problem and I can't fix it. I was trying to download JDK but I couldn't find it in the Website. Could you please post a link where we can download JDK for Mac.

Thank you!

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