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Thilo
Thilo

Reputation: 262852

Java5 on Snow Leopard

I need Java5 (not 6), but Snow Leopard comes with only Java6. There is /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5, but that just points to 1.6.0:

 $ ls -la /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/
 lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    5 Sep 24 20:12 1.3 -> 1.3.1
 drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel  102 Jul 21 07:35 1.3.1
 lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel   10 Sep 24 20:12 1.5 -> CurrentJDK
 lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel   10 Sep 24 20:12 1.5.0 -> CurrentJDK
 lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    5 Sep 24 20:12 1.6 -> 1.6.0
 drwxr-xr-x   7 root  wheel  238 Sep 24 20:12 1.6.0
 drwxr-xr-x   8 root  wheel  272 Sep 24 20:12 A
 lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    1 Sep 24 20:12 Current -> A
 lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    3 Sep 24 20:12 CurrentJDK -> 1.6

Can I install the real 1.5 from somewhere?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2157

Answers (5)

Hank Beaver
Hank Beaver

Reputation: 31

I was receiving a 'Bus Error' when trying to use the steps at http://wiki.oneswarm.org/index.php/OS_X_10.6_Snow_Leopard on 10.6.6. However when I tried Sagacity's steps above. I was able to get 1.5 to run.

Upvotes: 0

Sagacity
Sagacity

Reputation: 11

Run java5 on Snow Leopard

Get the java 5 that was included in 10.5 "leopard" and unpack

cd /tmp/ curl -o java.1.5.0-leopard.tar.gz http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/isdal/snow_leopard_workaround/java.1.5.0-leopard.tar.gz

tar -xvzf java.1.5.0-leopard.tar.gz

Move it to your System java folder (password needed)

sudo mv 1.5.0 /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0-leopard

Tell OS X that java 5 actually is java 5

cd /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/

sudo rm 1.5.0

sudo ln -s 1.5.0-leopard 1.5.0

sudo rm 1.5

sudo ln -s 1.5.0 1.5

Upvotes: 1

mhnagaoka
mhnagaoka

Reputation:

I've put together a small how-to here.

Upvotes: 0

David Sykes
David Sykes

Reputation: 49882

Here is a link to downgrading Snow Leopard to Java 1.5

Upvotes: 4

Arne Burmeister
Arne Burmeister

Reputation: 20614

Hmm, i do not have installed 10.6 yet (it is on the way), but the versions directory looks strange. Where is 1.4? And no version should point to CurrentJDK! My 10.5 installation is the following:

r2d2:~ arne$ ls -l /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions 
total 56
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    5 16 Sep 19:14 1.3 -> 1.3.1
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  102 14 Jan  2008 1.3.1
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    5 16 Sep 19:14 1.4 -> 1.4.2
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    3 21 Feb  2008 1.4.1 -> 1.4
drwxr-xr-x  8 root  wheel  272 21 Feb  2008 1.4.2
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    5 16 Sep 19:14 1.5 -> 1.5.0
drwxr-xr-x  8 root  wheel  272 21 Feb  2008 1.5.0
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    5 16 Sep 19:14 1.6 -> 1.6.0
drwxr-xr-x  8 root  wheel  272 26 Sep  2008 1.6.0
drwxr-xr-x  8 root  wheel  272 16 Sep 19:14 A
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    1 16 Sep 19:14 Current -> A
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    3 16 Sep 19:14 CurrentJDK -> 1.5
r2d2:~ arne$

Do other 10.6 users have the same problem? I am not shure about installing the Java 5 package for 10.5 will work on 10.6. Someone have experience?

Upvotes: 1

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