| eclipse version for mac os 10.6?[message #1719172] | Tue, 05 January 2016 19:33 | keni lu
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Registered: January 2016 |
| 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 #1719174 is a reply to message #1719172] | Tue, 05 January 2016 19:50 | Nitin Dahyabhai
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| http://download.eclipse.org recommends Java SE 7 or greater for the current version, Mars.1 (which includes Eclipse 4.5.1). Go ahead and install the latest you can get.
Nitin Dahyabhai
Eclipse Web Tools Platform
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| Re: eclipse version for mac os 10.6?[message #1719176 is a reply to message #1719172] | Tue, 05 January 2016 20:38 | Tauno Voipio
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| If possible, you should upgrade your OS X to version 10.7.3 or newer. Oracle Java does not support older versions of the operating system, neither does a new enough Apple Java exist.
After upgrading, get the newest Oracle Java from the Oracle download page, and use the installer with it.
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Tauno Voipio
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| Re: eclipse version for mac os 10.6?[message #1719178 is a reply to message #1719176] | Tue, 05 January 2016 21:06 | keni lu
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Registered: January 2016 |
| 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.
So -- if I *don't* have Java 7, does someone know what the newest version of Eclipse is that I can run?
(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.) |
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| Re: eclipse version for mac os 10.6?[message #1719180 is a reply to message #1719178] | Tue, 05 January 2016 22:14 | Russell Bateman
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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 18:42 | Eric Rizzo
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Registered: July 2009 |
| 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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| Re: eclipse version for mac os 10.6?[message #1719434 is a reply to message #1719280] | Thu, 07 January 2016 20:54 | keni lu
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Registered: January 2016 |
| Russell Bateman, Eric Rizzo, thanks! Those older versions work.
In case anyone ends up here searching for this answer, I'll say that both Eclipse Indigo SDK Version: 3.7 Build id: M20120208-0800, and Eclipse version Luna, Service Release 2 (4.4.2), Build id: 20150219-0600, run under Mac OS 10.6.8 and Java 1.6.0_65. Or at least run well enough to compile and run 'Hello world' in Java.
PyDev doesn't so my personal quest continues, but thank you all!
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| Re: eclipse version for mac os 10.6?[message #1810739 is a reply to message #1719434] | Sun, 18 August 2019 19:56 | Cinthya Viridiana Silva Gonzalez
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Registered: August 2019 |
| | Hi! I'm trying to install both Eclipse Indigo SDK Version: 3.7 Build id: M20120208-0800, or Eclipse version Luna, Service Release 2 (4.4.2), Build id: 20150219-0600 and I can't get the .dmg or .tgz from the eclipse page, it says ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH, does anyone know where can i download it? |
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| Re: eclipse version for mac os 10.6?[message #1810743 is a reply to message #1810739] | Mon, 19 August 2019 04:02 | Ed Merks
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| Yes, there seems to me some confusing problem between what is actually on download.eclipse.org and what is actually in archive.eclipse.org with various redirections between the two:
https://archive.eclipse.org/technology/epp/downloads/release/indigo/
But these very very old (why would you need such an ancient version), are definitely not directly on the download.eclipse.org server anymore.
Ed Merks
Professional Support: https://www.macromodeling.com/ |
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