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Reputation: 3891

Can't start Eclipse on OSX (Version not suitable)

I just tried to run Eclipse on a Mac Book Pro running OSX Mavericks. I've downloaded both, the 32 and the 64 bit version. Both end up in following Notification:

Version 1.6.0_65 of the JVM is not suitable for this product.
  Version: 1.7 or greater is required.

I know that the question was already asked, but my Eclipse won't event start with the 64-bit version, which was the answer for a smiliar question. So I checked the version of my installed Java by running

java -version

In the terminal. The output really confirmed, that version 1.6.0_65 was installed. Here's the output:

java version "1.6.0_65"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_65-b14-462-11M4609)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.65-b04-462, mixed mode)

Now the problem is that when launching the Java Control panel, it says, that Java 7 Update 67 is installed, and there are no updates.

So where's my problem, how get I get Eclipse to run?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3778

Answers (2)

Oleksiy Muzalyev
Oleksiy Muzalyev

Reputation: 1038

I installed JDK, "Java SE Development Kit 8u101", in addition to JRE and eclipse started to work fine.

Upvotes: 0

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1323115

You can modify the eclipse.ini and add the path to your JDK7

For versions of Mac OS X 10.7+ the location has changed to

-vm
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/<''jdk_name_ver''>/Contents/Home/...

To be safer, determine the location for the JDK you intend to use via the utility /usr/libexec/java_home and put this value with .../bin/java appended into the eclipse.ini file.

See "How to install JRE 1.7 on Mac OS X and use it with Eclipse?"

Upvotes: 1

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