I am a new Mac user. I need to install Java on my Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
How do I accomplish this?
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Sign up to join this communityJava comes already installed. It should be: /usr/bin/java
What makes you think it is missing?
and you can configure java with "Java Preferences.app" located in /Applications/Utilities
Java is already installed on Mac.
Open Terminal from /Applications/Utilities/
and type java -version
. You should see something like this:
java version "1.6.0_17"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_17-b04-248-10M3025)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 14.3-b01-101, mixed mode)
If appears -bash: java: command not found
, ore anything else, please write below comments for further instructions.