

You must install java 1.5 separately from the base of ver 1.4! - and then proceed to separately download each of the java updates for tiger (one of these seems to actually be a combos update - that include upgrades for ver 1.3 and ver1.4 but nothing for ver 1.5). The solution to this /apparent/ anomaly?: not to mention inconvenient if you want to run a (remotely) modern version of java such as 1.5 (aka Java2). but these all require that the previous updates (U1-U4) have already been applied! Ps: strangely, the osx software updater does not "see" the fresh (re)install of java & thus does not offer to perform an update automatically :-(Īnd the updates from the url mentioned by other posters here (at the apple support download site) only covers U5, U6, U7, U8. Yes, the procedure on the mac for adding java is just as simple as win/linux!Ģ) select (and launch) the correct installer displayed from that list: For example, /System/Library/Frameworks/amework/Versions/1.5/Home/bin If you don't want to hassle, you could add the appropriate bin folder to your PATH. The java commands are a nasty symlink nest, so I wish you luck. Ls -ltr /System/Library/Frameworks/amework/Versions/*

You should also dump the output from the second command below to see which JVMs you have installed.

I'm not at my mac at the moment, but perhaps someone could dump the output from Terminal. If you don't have enough space, simply copy some crap to DVD, network drive, or external hard drive to make room.Īlternatively, you could try to recreate the symlinks that you blew away - still not sure how one can manage that - and see if that fixes your problem. This is a simple case of a EBKAC problem.Ī simple Archive and Install is easy, in my opinion. You screwed up your own environment, so there is no need to complain about the OS.
