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List:       openjdk-macosx-port-dev
Subject:    Re: How to properly uninstall Java 6 on OSX?
From:       Mike Swingler <swingler () apple ! com>
Date:       2014-02-04 21:34:45
Message-ID: 43C1FE25-6700-432E-A694-5A2CFD8F3A3B () apple ! com
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I agree with the assessment below, however if you wish to rid your machine of Java SE \
6, the correct procedure is:

Remove the "system" JVM installed and maintained by Software Update
% sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk

Remove any Java Developer Previews
% sudo rm -rf /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0*.jdk

Do NOT remove any content in the JavaVM.framework. Those items are required by Java \
7, 8, 9+ as well as Java SE 6. No modern version of OS X has a Java JDK inside there \
anyway.

Regards,
Mike Swingler
Apple Inc.

On Feb 4, 2014, at 9:21 AM, Joshua Smith <jesmith@kaon.com> wrote:

> I don’t know the answer to your question, but I can suggest that you might be \
> causing yourself unneeded problems. 
> Security updates are important because of web sites that use Java maliciously. But \
> you can’t use Java 6 on the web anyway. You can only run Java 7 for applets. 
> Java 6 is on your machine for legacy software that relies on it in standalone \
> applications. The security issues aren’t going to impact these apps. The security \
> issues are invariably sandbox violation tricks, and the standalone apps aren’t \
> running Java sandboxed anyway. 
> -Joshua
> 
> On Feb 4, 2014, at 12:07 PM, Claudio Nieder <private@claudio.ch> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > it seems like Apple does not support Java 1.6 on Mavericks anymore, it is still \
> > at 1.6.0_65, the latest security updates of 1.6.0_71 are not available for OSX \
> > 10.9. 
> > Thus I would like to get rid of Java 6, but last time I tried to remove anything \
> > Java like except for what I had in /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7* \
> > resulted in problems even with Java 7, I probably removed more than I should have \
> > to and deleted some library or framework needed by Java 7, and thus had to \
> > reinstall Java 6.  
> > So what is the recommended way to uninstall Java 6 from Mavericks? Is there any \
> > utility one can execute? 
> > claudio
> > -- 
> > Claudio Nieder, Talweg 6, CH-8610 Uster, Tel +4179 357 6743, www.claudio.ch
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 


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