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Monty
Monty

Reputation: 53

How to uninstall newer version of java and install older version?

java -version
java version "1.6.0_26"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_26-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 20.1-b02, mixed mode)

Now I have a Java application which says

A different version of Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is required to use this application. and it is 1.6.0_17...

What to do?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 23414

Answers (4)

Mahender Reddy Yasa
Mahender Reddy Yasa

Reputation: 171

If you are using windows you can directly uninstall and install the older version.

Note: we can use multiple versions in a system by changing the system or user environment variable to use some version as my current java version make or put the path as followed it should be pasted first in path

System environment variable path setting

 C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_12\bin;.;

[;.;] this will indicate as current working directory and this version will only take as default version while installing java dependent sofware installations ex:netbeans,tomcat etc

Upvotes: 0

Ashish Aggarwal
Ashish Aggarwal

Reputation: 3026

You have to uninstall your current version of java and install the desired version.
You can found all previous version of java on this (Java Older versions) location.

Upvotes: 0

Gigaquad
Gigaquad

Reputation: 153

if you really want to have different version of the application running, then the keyword java needs to be fully provided with a path.

one good way is to export the java_home before you run the application and have the application always read the java home when starting the server.

export JAVA_HOME = c:\jdk7
JAVA_HOME/bin/java -server ...

export JAVA_HOME = c:\jdk6

Upvotes: 0

Jesper
Jesper

Reputation: 206956

It's really strange that the software you are trying to run requires a very specific update release (such as Oracle Java 6 update 17). Update releases are compatible and there should not be a need to require a very specific release.

On this page you can download earlier versions of Oracle's Java implementation, including Java 6 update 17.

Upvotes: 2

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