gz file to the same location would make sense. 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. Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_151.jdk/Contents/Home To switch between JDKs, use /usr/libexec/java_home -v version (e.g. usr/libexec/java_home -V: This lists all installed JDKs, which is shown below: $ /usr/libexec/java_home -Vġ0, x86_64: 'Java SE 10' /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-10.jdk/Contents/Homeġ.8.0_151, x86_64: 'Java SE 8' /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_151.jdk/Contents/Home usr/libexec/java_home: This will show you where the current JDK home is, for example: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-10.jdk/Contents/Home 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. tar.gz for OpenJDK 11 directly from, there’s no obvious installation instructions (at least that I could find) on the OpenJDK website or in the. tar.gz file and typing tar -zxf openjdk-19_macos-圆4_ -C ~/jdk.If you download the. Unpack JDK by opening your terminal (such as iTerm2, kitty, Terminal…), going to the directory in which you saved JDK. Since I have a few JDKs I keep them all under the same parent directory, in my case ~/jdk. After the file finished downloading we have to unpack it because it’s gzipped tar file. If you have new M1 Mac choose macOS/AArch64, otherwise choose macOS/圆4.

Near the top you’ll see build number and download links for various operating systems. In this article I will show you how to install JDK 19 on MacOS and to setup IntelliJ IDEA so you can write Java applications against it.

Even though it isn’t a LTS release, it’s worth installing it so we can test new features.

Java 19 is currently the latest version of Java.

Openjdk 1.8 mac