
#BREW INSTALL OPENJDK 8 CODE#
I also prefer oh my z, so the code below (w/o comments) is is part of my. I use an adapted version of the switch jdk function that unsets the JAVA_HOME variable before it gets set to a new value.
#BREW INSTALL OPENJDK 8 INSTALL#
On Mac, for Homebrew users, you can just type: brew install openjdk On. I prefer aliases to set the correct java version for the $1 parameter. Installing Java Before installing Clojure, you need to make sure that you have. However it can be also any arbitrary string. The $1 parameter value shall be the java version to set. The AdoptOpenJDK repository offers a function you can use in ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc: You can specify the major version only: export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home -v "1.8") brew search jdk (shows both AdoptOpenJDK and the Oracle JDK)ccording to this article, newer versions of Java JDK from Oracle are under GPL v2 license with a. Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/adoptopenjdk-8.jdk/Contents/Home You need to unset JAVA_HOME variable before you can set a new value for JAVA_HOME: $ unset JAVA_HOME However, setting the JAVA_HOME variable does not work this way in macOS BigSur (version 11): $ export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.8.0_275` $ echo $JAVA_HOMEĬhanging the java version in macOS prior to version 11 would be: export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.8.0_275` In this example, I had installed the newest JDK version 12.0.1. You can also run brew cask install java to install the newest JDK version.

The JAVA_HOME variable is set to java version 15 after executing the brew install commands above. Below is the correct command to install JDK 8 use the homebrew cask command ( brew cask install homebrew/cask-versions/adoptopenjdk8 ). Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/adoptopenjdk-15.jdk/Contents/Home The brew commands above result in these installed java versions: # Please note the upper case -V flag.ġ5.0.1 (x86_64) "AdoptOpenJDK" - "AdoptOpenJDK 15" /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/adoptopenjdk-15.jdk/Contents/Homeġ4.0.2 (x86_64) "AdoptOpenJDK" - "AdoptOpenJDK 14" /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/adoptopenjdk-14.jdk/Contents/Homeġ1.0.9.1 (x86_64) "AdoptOpenJDK" - "AdoptOpenJDK 11" /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/adoptopenjdk-11.jdk/Contents/Homeġ.8.0_275 (x86_64) "AdoptOpenJDK" - "AdoptOpenJDK 8" /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/adoptopenjdk-8.jdk/Contents/Home One option to install java on mac is AdoptOpenJDK with homebrew: brew install -cask adoptopenjdk (1.2) Fedora, Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, etc. ps: openjdk-8-jre only contains JRE, if you need to develop java programs, you need to download openjdk-8-jdk. with ` brew install -cask adoptopenjdk8/11/14/15`Įxport JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home -v "$1") use the following installation commands: sudo apt-get install openjdk- 8 -jre. If you only have one java version on your Mac, then you do not need the following steps. If you have multiple versions of Java on your computer, you may need jenv allows you to select which java version is currently running on your Mac. In a nutshell # assuming versions below are installed Then we can install AdoptOpenJDK 8: brew tap AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk brew install -cask adoptopenjdk8.
#BREW INSTALL OPENJDK 8 HOW TO#
This one is about how to change and persist the java version on macOS 11 BigSur in a shell script. Setting the java version on BigSur macOS 11 changed compare to setting the java version on earlier macOS versions.
