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Assuming you have installed Homebrew already, otherwise, you can go to the official website of home brew and install it first, after that, use the following commands will help you install latest JDK/Java on Mac without using the installer from Oracle or OpenJDK.
1. Do the update first
2. Install Java
This will take a while, can go and do something else.
It will download cask and run brew cask install command, for more information about Cask, please check out https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask
3. Verify it
You should see something like below, I have perform the installation when JDK 13 is out.
Previous way of doing it
The following steps is just to show the previous/another way of doing it
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Join For FreeIf you download the .tar.gz for OpenJDK 11 directly from http://jdk.java.net/11/, there’s no obvious installation instructions (at least that I could find) on the OpenJDK website or in the .gz file. If you’ve done any fiddling with different JDK versions on MacOS before, you’ve probably come across the ‘/usr/libexec/java_home’ utility, which composes a number of useful things relating to the JDK that you’re currently using in your PATH. Click here for my previous article about this utility and answers to this StackOverflow post, which includes one of the most extensive and useful guides to running different JDK versions on MacOS that I’ve seen.
/usr/libexec/java_home: This will show you where the current JDK home is, for example:
/usr/libexec/java_home -V: This lists all installed JDKs, which is shown below:
To switch between JDKs, use /usr/libexec/java_home -v version (e.g. 10):
Knowing that your available JDKs are installed to /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/ by default, moving the contents of the downloaded OpenJDK 11 dir from inside the .gz file to the same location would make sense.
Once you’ve moved it there, java_home -V now shows the new JDK in place:
Updating my aliases to quickly switch versions in my .bash_profile, I now have:
