I was able to unistall jdk 8 in mavericks successfully doing the following steps:

Run this command to just remove the JDK

sudo rm -rf /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk<version>.jdk

Run these commands if you want to remove plugins

sudo rm -rf /Library/PreferencePanes/JavaControlPanel.prefPane
sudo rm -rf /Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
sudo rm -rf /Library/LaunchAgents/com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist
sudo rm -rf /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper
sudo rm -rf /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist
sudo rm -rf /Library/Preferences/com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist

Did you run “sudo uninstall file://” first? The “rm -fr” command is forcing recursive removal of folder items. It will not look in other locations to remove the application or unused dependencies.

Have you considered using a package manager like Homebrew?

There is also an uninstaller project you could try.

I solved this issue by installing java version manager as suggested by Dave in the comments and it worked! For those having the same issue, I followed this guide https://sma.im/how-to-manage-multiple-java-versions-on-macos/ up to /usr/libexec/java_home -V Then I did /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/ then ls and corretto-11.0.17 showed up and I was able to remove it using rm -rf corretto-11.0.17