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Jdk free download - OpenJDK 7 for OS X Lion, and many more programs. Java SE Development Kit 8 Downloads. Thank you for downloading this release of the Java™ Platform, Standard Edition Development Kit (JDK™). The JDK is a development environment for building applications, applets, and components using the Java programming language. JDK 7 Debian, Ubuntu, etc. On the command line, type: $ sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre. The openjdk-7-jre package contains just the Java Runtime Environment. If you want to develop Java programs then install the openjdk-7-jdk package. Fedora, Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, etc. On the command line, type: $ su -c 'yum install java-1.

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To get JDK 7 up,

• I downloaded the JDK from Oracle. They have a nice dmg file, which makes it easy to install.
• After reading their installation instructions and running /usr/libexec/java_home (which I didn't even know about), it still wasn't defaulting to JDK 7.

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Surgery required. So, I headed over to:

This is where the system jvm's are stored. You'll notice a symbolic link for CurrentJDK. It probably points to:

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You're going to want to point that to the new JDK, which java_home tells us is located in:

So, the magic commands you need are:

Then, you should be good:

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