Requirement
Java 6 for Android development on Mountain Lion.
Question
Is it possible? What can I do?
I've looked everywhere for a way to do this and am unable to find any solution.
Background
I recently installed Oracle's Java 7 for OS X on my Mac running Mountain Lion (10.8.2). I was happy with this until I started doing Android development, which throws errors relating to Java 7.
I downloaded Apple's Java for OS X Lion Update 1, but when I try to install it I get only this message before Installer closes:
A newer version of this package is already installed.
I followed Oracle's instructions (Mac FAQ), but they seem to not work for me. Afterwards if I do java -version
it still says Java 7.
I even tried restarting my computer, to no avail.
Before I tried to reinstall Java 6, Apple's Java Preferences utility (described by Oracle) was present, but after trying all these things I am also without Java Preferences.
Best Answer
From my understanding the actual components that need to be removed first are in
/System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/*.jdk
So if you get rid of those:
Also, as you mentioned, you're supposed to remove this:
At this point it should simply be a matter of downloading 1.6 and installing it. If you do
$ whereis java
you will see that the java binaries are stored in/usr/bin/{java,javac,etc}
. But$ java -version
apparently gets its information from the first folder I mentioned you should delete.After you remove those, try running
$ java -version
again. You should be prompted to install it.Hope this helps!