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Question

I'm finding it hard to install Eclipse, says I need a 64-bit Java virtual machine. I tried to get it, after being redirected to the Oracle site, and I was truck in the process. At the Sign up for an Oracle account, it became unclear. Please where do i head from there?

Answer 1

Alright first of all you need JDK which is JAVA DEVELOPMENT KIT - jre is JAVA RUNTIME ENVIRONMENT which comes bundled with the dev kit.

Then you need to let your operating system know WHERE jdk is located using System environment variables

Here's how you do that:

Java 14 jdk (current build) can be found here:

https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase-jdk14-downloads.html

If you're on windows, press the Windows key and start typing "environment" in the search bar, you'll find system environment variables - you need to add jdk as a new variable and set its name to PATH

Detail instructions:

https://www.java.com/en/download/help/path.xml

(also check some YouTube videos if you get confused, this part is kinda complicated fist time round)

Last, eclipse will ask again which version of java you have installed so it knows where to find it

Answer 2

Thank you HNNX