<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">But note that, if you have the more secure Java 8 installed, Java 6 and 8 runtimes will conflict in recent versions of OS X, where only one Java runtime is allowed to be active.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">One can still use java 8 yet “fool" some legacy apps into using Java 6, as instructed at:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="https://oliverdowling.com.au/2015/10/09/oracles-jdk-8-on-mac-os-x-el-capitan/" class="">https://oliverdowling.com.au/2015/10/09/oracles-jdk-8-on-mac-os-x-el-capitan/</a>&nbsp; &nbsp;[for JDK]</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://oliverdowling.com.au/2015/10/09/oracles-jre-8-on-mac-os-x-el-capitan/" class="">https://oliverdowling.com.au/2015/10/09/oracles-jre-8-on-mac-os-x-el-capitan/</a>&nbsp; [for just JRE]</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Not sure whether octave with its default variant +java will be so fooled..</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 24, 2016, at 12:20 PM, Ryan Schmidt &lt;<a href="mailto:ryandesign@macports.org" class="">ryandesign@macports.org</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">On May 24, 2016, at 10:48 AM, Marius Schamschula wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Java SE 6 is apparently no longer on Apple’s servers (I looked for it a week or two ago).<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Java SE 6 for OS X 10.7 Lion through OS X 10.11 El Capitan:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572" class="">https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572</a><br class=""><br class="">For Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard:<br class=""><br class="">https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1573<br class=""><br class="">For Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard:<br class=""><br class="">https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1359<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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