I noticed that when running terminal in X11 that Java still shows as 1.5 until I source my. You should now be able to run Java 6 applications. Check your Java version, you should now see 1.6.Save and reload your profile % source ~/.profile.Mine's defined in ~/.profile, your's might be in ~/.bash_profile. % sudo tar xvf ~/Desktop/soylatte16-i386-1.0.3.tar -C /usr/local I put mine in /usr/local and created a version agnostic symbolic link which I'll update after future SoyLatte updates.

Use the username and password provided at the beginning of the Download section, just above the binary download link. Download the SoyLatte 32-bit JDK binary for OS X 10.4 to your Desktop.Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_16-132, mixed mode, sharing) Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_16-b06-275) If you check your current Java version from a terminal, you'll likely see version 1.5. SoyLatte is initially focused on supporting Java 6 development however, the long-term view far more captivating: open development of Java 7 for Mac OS X, with a release available in concert with the official Sun release, supported on all recent versions of Mac OS X. SoyLatte is a functional, X11-based port of the FreeBSD Java 1.6 patchset to Mac OS X Intel machines. The good news is that if you're running an Intel-based Mac, you can keep your Java environment up-to-date with SoyLatte, which is part of the OpenJDK BSD-Port project. As you're probably aware, although Apple updated OS X 10.5 Leopard to Java 6 they probably never will provide updates beyond Java 5 for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. I recently needed Java 6 to install an Eclipse patch.

X11 for mac os 10.4