JOSM will not start - Unsupported major.minor version

[steve.ousley@…]

When running josm from the terminal on my linux machine, an error comes up that the major.minor version is unsupported. This is replicable every time on my system.

Full error:
homer ~ # DISPLAY=:0 josm
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/openstreetmap/josm/gui/MainApplication (Unsupported major.minor version 49.0)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:539)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:123)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:251)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:55)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:194)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:187)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:289)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:274)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:235)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:302)

homer ~ #

[Gabriel Ebner <ge@…>]

What java version do you have? You need at least 1.5.

[Gabriel Ebner <ge@…>]

Closing for lack of response.