Turns out java has been moved into brew core recently, so the correct command as of August 2022 is:
brew install java
Then check your installation by running
java -version
If the result does not looks like this:
openjdk 18.0.2 2022-07-19
OpenJDK Runtime Environment Homebrew (build 18.0.2+0)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM Homebrew (build 18.0.2+0, mixed mode, sharing)
but like this:
The operation couldn’t be completed. Unable to locate a Java Runtime.
Please visit http://www.java.com for information on installing Java.
Then you also need to create a symlink for the system Java wrappers to find this JDK:
sudo ln -sfn /opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk/libexec/openjdk.jdk \
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk.jdk
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Turns out java has been moved into brew core recently, so the correct command as of August 2022 is:
brew install java
Then check your installation by running
java -version
If the result does not looks like this:
openjdk 18.0.2 2022-07-19
OpenJDK Runtime Environment Homebrew (build 18.0.2+0)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM Homebrew (build 18.0.2+0, mixed mode, sharing)
but like this:
The operation couldn’t be completed. Unable to locate a Java Runtime.
Please visit http://www.java.com for information on installing Java.
Then you also need to create a symlink for the system Java wrappers to find this JDK:
sudo ln -sfn /opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk/libexec/openjdk.jdk \
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk.jdk
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As an add-on to the accepted answer: to install a certain version of Java, e.g. version 11, run:
brew install openjdk@11
And symlink it:
sudo ln -sfn /opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk@11/libexec/openjdk.jdk \
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk-11.jdk
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$ brew info openjdk ... For the system Java wrappers to find this JDK, symlink it with sudo ln -sfn /usr/local/opt/openjdk/libexec/openjdk.jdk /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk.jdk ...
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i use monterey 12.7 and do NOT have /usr/local/opt too i found my java in the following location: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/temurin-8.jdk/Contents/Home/bin and this path was found in my PATH ... $ brew install openjdk@8 ==> Fetching downloads for: openjdk@8 ✔︎ API Source openjdk@8.rb [Verifying 9.9KB/ 9.9KB] openjdk@8: The x86_64 architecture is required for this software.
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I need Java for some applications and I just downloaded the latest Java installer (jre-8u431-macosx-aarch64) from Oracle aaand … it's not installing. It tries to install and says something like java could not be installed and "OS error code 1".
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Use brew.sh Also Java 8 is… extremely old
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- Install homebrew
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
- Update homebrew if already installed:
brew update
- allow brew to lookup versions
brew tap homebrew/cask-versions
- list available java versions
brew search java
Optional: to find out the minor version of java
brew info --cask java8
- install java 8 (or any other version available)
brew install --cask java8
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Raising Sean Breckenridge's comment as an answer to increase visibility:
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
brew tap homebrew/cask-versions
brew cask install homebrew/cask-versions/adoptopenjdk8
There is no longer cask named "java8".
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