As others have stated, Oracle is only supporting Java 7 on Mac OS X 10.7 and above. The openjdk-osx-build project was creating OpenJDK 7 builds for OS X 10.6, but has recently shuttered the operation. The build and package scripts were moved to the OBuildFactory project. This recent OBuildFactory post indicates there will be no further efforts to build OpenJDK 7 on OS X 10.6: It looks like rolling your own OpenJDK 7 got a lot harder. If you need Java 7, upgrading to OS X 10.8 is probably the easiest route (upgrade from the Mac App Store costs $19.99) - but your desktop will start looking and behaving more like a phone. If you have / will install Xcode 3.2.6 or 4.2 (4.2 requires a paid account or a little illegality, and I know it's a massive download), download the java 7 installer, extract the PKG from the DMG file, and open it in PackageMaker. Remove the version requirement string and rebuild the PKG file.
After the Mac OSX upgrade is finished, Apple Java 6 may no longer exists on your and released prior to Apple's release of 10.8 (Mountain Lion) operating system. And follow the instructions about Apple's Gatekeeper security feature. Java is a free software currently developed by Oracle Corporation. Apple provided its own implementation of Java for Mac OS X until October, 2012. At that time, the Apple verison of Java 6 was removed during an OS X update, and replaced with the Oracle-supplied version of Java 7. Manual Java For Mac Os X 10.5 8 Update 10.6.8 Intel CoreSolo and Intel CoreDuo can upgrade only to Mac OS X 10.6.8 if they have to 10.6.8 to 10.9 to 10.9.2, or even up to 10.10 and 10.10.4 (skipping 10.5 to 10.5.8 are better.
It will now let you install Java 7! Source: I did this on my 2006 Core 2 Duo iMac running Snow Leopard. Edit: the one thing that does not appear to work on snow leopard is the AWT libraries. There is a customized version of openJDK 7 that supposedly fixes the problem, but Java requires a truly herculean effort for me to compile - it's not very nice about following the./configure && make && make install structure that most programs use. The original place to get openJDK 7 for Snow Leopard was here: You used to be able to get JDK DMG's, but which the author decided for some reason to remove them (possibly they were out of date).
His page now links here: and this commit seems to fix the problems with AWT.
Did anyone figure out a way how to install Apple's Java 6 on a machine running 10.11? I keep getting this error: 'This application requires the legacy Java SE 6 runtime which is unavailable for this version of OS X.' I have Java 8 JDK Update 45 installed on my computer. See Terminal java -version: ' java version '1.8.045' Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.045-b14) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.45-b02, mixed mode)' Trying to install Java for OS X 2014-001 which is the latest release of Apple's Java (that I know of at least) I get this error: 'Java for OS X 2014-001 can't be installed on this disk. A never version of this package is already installed.' Does anyone have an idea?
Manual Java 6 For Mac 10.13
Update: Solution. I was actually able to get java6 installed (and it seems to work) by doing the following:.
Disable rootless (boot to recovery partition, choose Utilities Security Configuration and turn it off). Install homebrew and homebrew cask. Install the homebrew cask versions tap ( brew tap caskroom/versions). Edit the java6 cask ( brew cask edit java6) and save it.
Remove the line that says it requires. Code: $ brew cask install java6 Downloading Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/java6-1.6.065.dmg Running installer for java6; your password may be necessary. Package installers may write to any location; options such as -appdir are i Password: installer: Cannot install on volume / because it is disabled. installer: A newer version of this package is already installed. Error: Command failed to execute!
Failed command: '/usr/bin/sudo', '-E', '-', '/usr/sbin/installer', '-pkg', '#', '-target', '/' Output of failed command: installer: Cannot install on volume / because it is disabled. Installer: A newer version of this package is already installed. Installed package using at this point.
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Code: $ java -version Unable to locate a Java Runtime to invoke. $ brew cask install java6 Downloading Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/java6-1.6.065.dmg Running installer for java6; your password may be necessary. Package installers may write to any location; options such as -appdir are i Password: installer: Package name is Java for OS X 2014-001 installer: Upgrading at base path / installer: The upgrade was successful. Java6 staged at '/opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/java6/1.6.065' (64M) $ java -version java version '1.6.065' Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.065-b14-466.1-11M4716) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.65-b04-466.1, mixed mode).