{"id":1697,"date":"2013-08-27T19:15:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T19:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2013-08-27T19:15:33","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T19:15:33","slug":"using-just-oracle-java-1-7-in-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/?p=1697","title":{"rendered":"Using Just Oracle Java 1.7 in OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download from Oracle: http:\/\/java.com\/en\/download\/mac_download.jsp?locale=en<\/p>\n<p>Verify that it&#8217;s installed properly by looking in System Prefs:<\/p>\n<p>Command-Space to open Spotlight, type &#8216;System Preferences&#8217;, hit enter.<br \/>\nClick Java icon in bottom row. After the Java Control Panel opens, click &#8216;Java&#8217; tab, &#8216;View&#8230;&#8217;, and verify that your install worked. You can see a &#8216;Path&#8217; there also, which you can sub into the commands below in case they are different than mine.<br \/>\nVerify that the version is as you expect (sub in your path as needed):<\/p>\n<div class=\"codecolorer-container text default\" style=\"overflow:auto;white-space:nowrap;\"><div class=\"text codecolorer\">\/Library\/Internet\\ Plug-Ins\/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin\/Contents\/Home\/bin\/java -version<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Create link from \/usr\/bin\/java to your new install<\/p>\n<div class=\"codecolorer-container text default\" style=\"overflow:auto;white-space:nowrap;\"><div class=\"text codecolorer\">sudo ln -fs \/Library\/Internet\\ Plug-Ins\/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin\/Contents\/Home\/bin\/java \/usr\/bin\/java<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Sanity check your version:<\/p>\n<div class=\"codecolorer-container text default\" style=\"overflow:auto;white-space:nowrap;\"><div class=\"text codecolorer\">java -version<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download from Oracle: http:\/\/java.com\/en\/download\/mac_download.jsp?locale=en Verify that it&#8217;s installed properly by looking in System Prefs: Command-Space to open Spotlight, type &#8216;System Preferences&#8217;, hit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info-on-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}