I need to download and install Java SE6 as my Photoshop CS5.1 does not run with the new OS Josemite... Please help!
MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)
Most of the time I use Meridian Pro Imaging for prints, and they use ROES, but sometimes I make photobooks at random sites other than Blurb (which I can create in InDesign and upload as a pdf) so this is good to know. Thanks!
I'm getting the same error with a different application. How is it okay to encourage people to install a JDK whose final public update came on 2013-04-16? That's ridiculous.
You responded to the OP (Original Poster), but neither they, nor anyone else in this topic mentioned the developer's kit.
You responded to the OP (Original Poster), but neither they, nor anyone else in this topic mentioned the developer's kit.
"I'm getting the same error with a different application. How is it okay to encourage people to install a JDK JRE whose final public update came on 2013-04-16? That's ridiculous."
Pedantry aside, what's your point?
Actually, my statement was wondering what your point was. I didn't see a reason for you to say anything about JDK at all. NO ONE mentioned it. And yet your statement gripes about someone who did. So please, do tell us who mentioned the JDK.
But to answer your statement about getting the same message, it simply means that app is looking for a version of Java that isn't installed on your system. Either install Apple's Java 6, which I already linked to in the first response of this topic, or install the latest version 8 of Java from Oracle. You can install both.
Actually, my statement was wondering what your point was.
Sure, I'll explain it to you. Running long-since-deprecated Java runtimes (JDK or JRE) introduces (in my opinion) unacceptable security risks. Oracle shares that opinion:
We highly recommend users remove all older versions of Java from your system. Keeping old and unsupported versions of Java on your system presents a serious security risk. Removing older versions of Java from your system ensures that Java applications will run with the most up-to-date security and performance improvements on your system.
My point wasn't to criticize your advice. Sorry if it sounded like I was. My larger (and, to my mind, fairly uncontroversial) point was that if the only solution is to install an insecure Java runtime, that's a pretty ****-poor solution. Apple seems to be encouraging that here. (And application developers shouldn't be tying their Java applications to specific runtimes.)
But if the application won't run without 1.6, it won't run without 1.6. So sometimes the ****-poor solution is the only solution.
Still, it's important that people understand the risks.
Java 6 from Apple isn't much of a threat. Hardly any at all, really. The main danger with with any version of Java is malicious web sites. Even if installed, OS X will not allow Apple's Java 6, or even Oracle's Java 7 to connect to any browser. I know this is true for Yosemite, and I think also Mavericks. Older than that, I can't say.
If you do install Java 8, it will automatically turn on Java access for your browsers. After installing Java 8, you have to immediately go into the System Preferences, click on the Java icon, and turn browser access off under the Security tab (top check box).
Once you do that, Java apps you use are no more or less secure than any other third party app you use. Either it's intended to be malicious, or it isn't. That an app running from directly from your drive is written for Java doesn't make a difference in that respect.
That said, if you have an app that is looking for Java 6, and won't run without it, you can fool it into believing it exists by installing Java 8, and then entering these two commands in Terminal.
sudo mkdir -p /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk
sudo mkdir -p /System/Library/Java/Support/Deploy.bundle
The end result is two null items that make the apps looking for Java 6 believe it exists. They then run under Java 8. The Terminal commands are the same end result as what JimmyCMPIT mentioned earlier in this topic.
The issue is related only to the older version of Adobe's CS. Adobe CC first version and the latest 2015, I think doesn't even need Java, or if it needs it, it works just fine with the latest JRE/JDK 8.45
I know Dreamweaver in the first CC suite needed Java, but can't remember if any others did. Of the apps I used in CC 2014, and now with CC 2015, none of them require Java.
Java SE6
