Installing Java on OS X 10 9 Mavericks

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I have installed the JDK on Mac nbsp OS nbsp X nbsp v10 8  Mountain Lion   When I upgraded it to Mac nbsp OS nbsp X nbsp v10 9  Mavericks  and ran java -version in the terminal  it showed      No Java runtime present  requesting install    Then I manually installed the JDK  1 7  on my Mac  It seems that the installation worked fine  When the installation was done  I opened the terminal and typed java -version as well  It also showed the same error      No Java runtime present  requesting install    How can I solve this problem

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If you only want to install the latest official JRE from Oracle, you can get it there, install it, and export the new JAVA_HOME in the terminal.

Open your Terminal
java -version gives you an error and a popup
Get the JRE dmg on http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
Install it
In your terminal, type: export JAVA_HOME="/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home"
java -version now gives you java version "1.7.0_45"

That's the cleanest way I found to install the latest JRE.

You can add the export JAVA_HOME line in your .bashrc to have java permanently in your Terminal:

echo export JAVA_HOME=\"/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home\" >> ~/.bashrc

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From the OP   I finally reinstalled it from Java for OS X 2013-005   It solved this issue

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The right place to download the JDK for Java 7 is Java SE Downloads   All the other links provided above  as far as I can tell  either provide the JRE or Java 6 downloads  incidentally  if you want to run Eclipse or other IDEs  like IntelliJ IDEA  you will need the JDK  not the JRE    Regarding IntelliJ IDEA - that will still ask you to install Java 6 as it apparently needs an older class loader or something  just follow the instructions when the dialog pop-up appears and it will install the JDK 6 in the right place   Afterwards  you will need to do the sudo ln -snf mentioned in the answer above   sudo ln -nsf  Library Java JavaVirtualMachines jdk1 7 0 45 jdk Contents        System Library Frameworks JavaVM framework Versions CurrentJDK    copied here as it was mentioned that  above  may eventually not make sense as answers are re-sorted    I also set my JAVA HOME to point to where jdk 1 7 0 xx jdk was installed   export JAVA HOME   Library Java JavaVirtualMachines jdk1 7 0 45 jdk Contents Home    Then add that to your PATH   export PATH  JAVA HOME bin  PATH   The alternative is to fuzz around with Apple s insane maze of hyperlinks  but honestly life is too short to bother

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This error happens because the plist file of IntelliJ IDEA requires Java version 1 6   To solve this problem  replace the 1 6  with 1 8     lt key gt JVMOptions lt  key gt   lt dict gt       lt key gt ClassPath lt  key gt                  lt key gt JVMVersion lt  key gt       lt string gt 1 8  lt  string gt        lt key gt MainClass lt  key gt       lt string gt com intellij idea Main lt  string gt       lt key gt Properties lt  key gt   lt dict gt

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This error means Java is not properly installed    1  brew cask install java  No need to install cask separately it comes with brew   2  java -version  java version  1 8 0 131  Java TM  SE Runtime Environment  build 1 8 0 131-b11    P S - What is brew-cask   Homebrew-Cask extends Homebrew   and solves the hassle of executing an extra command -    To install  drag this icon       after installing a Application using Homebrew   N B - This problem is not specific to Mavericks   you will get it almost all the OS X  including EL Capitan

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My experience for updating Java SDK on OS X 10 9 was much easier  I downloaded the latest Java SE Development Kit 8  from SE downloads and installed the  dmg file  And when typing java -version in terminal the following was displayed   java version  quot 1 8 0 11 quot  Java TM  SE Runtime Environment  build 1 8 0 11-b12  Java HotSpot TM  64-Bit Server VM  build 25 11-b03  mixed mode

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There isn t any need to install the JDK  which is the developer kit  just the JRE which is the runtime environment

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I downloaded manually to here  Java for OS X 2014-001   After that open your terminal and check the installation with java -version   EDIT  January  2015   Also see HT202912  About Java for OS X 2014-001

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The OP implied that Java 7 was the need  And Java 6 is in fact no longer being  supported  so 7 is the version you should be installing at this point unless you have legacy app concerns   You can get it here  http   java com en download mac download jsp locale en

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I downloaded and installed the JDK 1 7 from Oracle  In the console   in Terminal Java 7 works fine    When I start a Java program  like Eclipse  via the GUI  I get      To open  Eclipse app  you need a Java SE 6 runtime  Would you like to   install one now    Because I did not want to install old Java version  I used the following workaround   sudo ln -nsf  Library Java JavaVirtualMachines jdk1 7 0 45 jdk Contents  System Library Frameworks JavaVM framework Versions CurrentJDK  Credits to monkehWorks

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The new Mavericks  10 9  showed me the  Requesting install   but nothing happened    The solution was to manually download and install the official Java package for OS nbsp X  which is in Java for OS X 2013-005   Update  As mentioned in the comments below  there is a newer version of this same package   Java for OS X 2014-001  Java for OS X 2014-001  Correcting dead line above      Java for OS X 2014-001 includes installation improvements  and supersedes all previous versions of Java for OS X  This package installs the same version of Java 6 included in Java for OS X 2013-005

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