[CentOS] JRE 8.1 for CentOS6

Rich Huff rich at richhuff.com
Thu Sep 14 15:38:58 UTC 2017


On Thu, 2017-09-14 at 11:25 -0400, Larry Martell wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Darr247 <darr247 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > I have some software that says it requires JRE 8.1 or higher.
> > 
> > That's very odd, since technically JRE 8 is java 1.8 (and JRE 7
> > is/was 1.7;
> > JRE 6 was 1.6, et cetera).
> > 
> > > If I go to
> > 
> > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jre8-downlo
> > ads-21331
> > 55.html
> > > and install jre-8u144-linux-x64.rpm I get jrel.8.0_144. Anyone
> > > know where
> > 
> > I can get 8.1?
> > 
> > http://javadl.oracle.com/webapps/download/AutoDL?BundleId=225344_09
> > 0f390dda5
> > b47b9b721c7dfaa008135
> > should get you the 64-bit v1.8 build 144 of Java, which is indeed
> > the latest
> > version.
> > 
> > What software is it that requires JRE 8.1?
> 
> Sorry I mistyped it says 1.8 or greater. I did install that and I
> still get the message. It's remote control software for an IBM
> system.

Do you have a lower version Java installed?  
What does command 'java -version' say?

IBM has their own flavor of Java.  Is it looking for that?


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