Now navigate to the eclipse.ini shown below: Anyway the solution was a simple extension of the above steps.įind your eclipse.app and CTRL right click on it, you will then see a ‘Show Package Contents’ option I hadn’t used Eclipse on the affected Mac for a few weeks so I’m not sure if it was broken by a Java update, an OSX update or even an Eclipse update. To prove it here’s the Eclipse About box to show Eclipse Luna 4.4.2 successfully running on OS X 10.10.3.Ī recent update broke the above solution. Now clicking on the Eclipse icon will successfully launch Eclipse. Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.45-b02, mixed mode) Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_45-b14) Once complete try the Java -version command again from the command line to prove the install has been successful.

Clicking on More info will take you through to the Oracle Java download site.įrom here download the Mac OS X 64 bit JDK and then when the download has completed click on the dmg file in the download loads directory and follow the install instructions. I knew I had the latest version of Java runtime (JRE) installed so had expected the Java -version command to display Java 8.

Note that it’s asking you to install a JDK. In my case then displayed the message, To use the “java” command-line tool you need to install a JDK. Try going to the OS X Command line and enter the command java -version

Common sense says there has to be a better solution. It’s out of support and now has a number of serious security issues. It gave the highly misleading error message To open “eclipse” you need to install the legacy Java SE 6 runtime.

After downloading Eclipse (Luna 4.4.2) on Max OS X 10.10.3 Yosemite it failed to start-up.

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