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MacOS has OpenJDK installed by default however I prefer to use Oracle’s versionof JDK because its the official version. I don’t want to install it the same wayOracle instructs it on their docs as I find it very tedious. I’m a guy who lovesautomating stuff so I prefer to install it via Homebrew. I frequently do a cleaninstall on my Mac every time there is a new version of OSX so I have to installJDK again and again. I’d rather just run a single installation script instead ofheading over to Oracle’s website and following their instructions.
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Steps to install and configure the Oracle JDK:
Homebrew and Cask
Homebrew is a package manager for Mac and has always been my preferred way toinstall my command line tools because I can integrate it with my setup scripts.To install it I’ll run
then I’ll install Homebrew Cask which is an extension of Homebrew. It makesthe installation of large binaries and graphical applications simpler.
JDK Installation
Before I install the JDK, I’ll check first which version it will install bydefault. I’m very picky about the version because most of the time I just useJava for Android development. I also prefer the older and more stable version ofJDK so I run Polygon love 2 mods.
which will output
This means that the latest version is JDK 11. I can install it now by running
but I prefer to install JDK 8 over 11 so instead I’ll run
Setup Java_HOME environment variable
Once installed, I will set the JAVA_HOME environment variable by editing my.bash_profile
and inserting this line
and applying these changes by running
Verifying Installation
Now to confirm if the installation was sucessful I’ll run this command.
If the installation is successful, its output would be similiar to this
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This tells me that I have installed the Oracle version of the JDK. However ifthe output is like this
then I may have failed to install the JDK properly or the changes may not havebeen applied yet because I can see that OpenJDK is still being used. I’ll try tofix this by restarting my Mac then running “java -version” again.
Automating installation with a script
Below is a simple script to automate the installation of the latest Oracle JDK.
That’s it! Now you can automate your JDK installation on you Mac by running thescript.
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