Java 1.6 and Lynx for Mac OS

Jens O. Meiert, October 29, 2007 / April 19, 2012.

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Java 1.6 as well as the Lynx text browser appear to be “less available” for Mac OS than for Windows, so here they are again, ready for download and for your convenience:

It took some time to figure out where to get the Java 1.6 (or Java 6) JDK for Mac since Sun doesn’t provide it and Apple apparently removed the Developer Preview from their ADC download site—a colleague finally located the disk image on a Dutch site. Please note that there might be problems with Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard); I cannot tell anything about the proposed solutions.

The situation with Lynx was different, but since quite a few sites seem to link the GNU Mac OS X Public Archive which has been unavailable most of the time during the last few days, I needed to look for alternatives, one of them being Lynxlet.

However, all files are provided without guarantees. Java and Lynxlet work fine on my machines, but I cannot assume any liability. I do not offer support either; you wouldn’t want advice from a Java noob.

Update (February 27, 2008)

The situation apparently changed in that Apple offers Java stuff again, and everything seems to be working fine even with Leopard. For your convenience, I offer current Java 1.6 Developer Preview 9 (DMG, 55,497 KB) for download, too.

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Comments

On December 3, 2007, 2:50 CET, ryan said:

Hey thanks a lot for posting this. I was looking for the 1.6 preview forever.
On March 14, 2008, 3:29 CET, Peter said:

A query - I am very grateful that someone has found the Java 1.6 which will work on Tiger, G4. However when I try and install the .pkg, I get an error “Alert: This volume contains a newer version of Java.” I cannot go any further. I do not know how to persuade my Mac to accept this version. any ideas welcome!

Thanks,
Peter
On May 22, 2009, 16:29 CEST, Sarah said:

i have the same problem as Peter
On March 21, 2010, 18:06 CET, Barney said:

Sorry to say, Peter and Sarah are in good company…
On June 25, 2010, 16:54 CEST, Manny Cruz from NYC said:

having a hard time installing java 1.6 on mac os 10.4.11
On January 4, 2012, 19:28 CET, Peter_2 said:

The difficulty in finding Java 1.6 illustrates another case of Apple’s poor customer service. Several times I’ve tried to find software and become lost in a labyrinth of circular references between different pages. Their ADC search engine is no help; it provides no reference or hundreds of references. Try finding Xcode 3 if you still have a G4 machine. Then try using the Apple migration program from a G4 iBook to a Mac Air. After hours at home trouble-shooting my wireless network, my local Genius explains that firewire is the only usable network. But the Air has no firewire. And on it goes…
On February 15, 2012, 15:59 CET, Anonymous said:

This is supposed to be for 10.4 Tiger? Well, I’m getting the same error messages as Peter when trying to install it from using the 1.6 developer preview. I am now going to attempt to use the preview 9, but doubting it.

I also hear that version 1.6 of Java is only for Leapard now? So it won’t work on Tiger anymore?

At anyrate, if anyone could help me that would be brilliant.

Jens Meiert