I just completed a Selenium Webdriver course using a borrowed windows laptop. However as I use Macs at home I am trying to install Eclipse on my own iMac using OSX 10.11.4.
I downloaded and ran the installer for Eclipse but I got the error message "Incompatible JVM - version 1.7.0_79 of the JVM is not suitable for this product. Version 1.8or greater is required"
So I installed the latest version of java (1.8) which went fine, however when I try to launch Eclipse again I get the same message. And when I enter Java -version into the terminal I still java version "1.7.0_79"
I did a bit of digging around and I came across a thread from a couple of years back Java 1.7 on OSX 10.9.2 running as 1.5? which appears to state that the solution to this is
rm -rf ~/Library/Java/Extensions sudo rm -rf /Library/Java/Extensions
Now I am not a very technical person and when I entered these commands into the terminal window I got the message :
ARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your typing when using sudo. Type "man sudo" for more information.
To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.
So I aborted until I can find out if this is still the solution as this was the solution 3 years ago and is this all I need to do to get this issue fixed.
Any help would be very much appreciated