I have been having a lot of trouble with updating my mac to Java 8 in order to get certain plugins/mods to work. Now you can finally use them! Here I will show you how to update your mac to Java 8 and actually be able to run programs with it.
In order to do this, you will need to install the JDK.
1. Go to terminal and run java -version It should say some variation of 1.6, which means you have java 1.6
I have been having a lot of trouble with updating my mac to Java 8 in order to get certain plugins/mods to work. Now you can finally use them! Here I will show you how to update your mac to Java 8 and actually be able to run programs with it.
In order to do this, you will need to install the JDK.
1. Go to terminal and run java -version It should say some variation of 1.6, which means you have java 1.6
2. Go to http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index-jsp-138363.html#javasejdk and download the JDK for Mac OS X 64 Bit.
3. Run the installer, and install the JDK.
4. Run java -version again, and it should say something like 1.8.
5. Enjoy.