Updating my aliases to quickly switch versions in my. Once you’ve moved it there, java_home -V now shows the new JDK in place: $ /usr/libexec/java_home -Vġ1, x86_64: 'OpenJDK 11' /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-11.jdk/Contents/Home 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.

Install zulu openjdk version 11