Amazon Corretto 8 Installation Instructions for macOS 11 or later

This topic describes how to install and uninstall Amazon Corretto 8 on a host running the Mac OS version 11 or later. You must have administrator permissions to install and uninstall Amazon Corretto 8.

Install Amazon Corretto 8

1. Download the Mac .pkg file from the Downloads page.

2. Double-click the downloaded file to begin the installation wizard and follow the steps in the wizard.

3. Once the wizard completes, Amazon Corretto 8 is installed in /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/.

   You can run the following command in a terminal to get the complete installation path.

   /usr/libexec/java_home --verbose

4. Run the following command in the terminal to set the JAVA_HOME variable to the Amazon Corretto 8 version of the JDK. If this was set to another version previously, it is overridden.

   export JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/amazon-corretto-8.jdk/Contents/Home

Uninstall Amazon Corretto 8

You can uninstall Amazon Corretto 8 by running the following commands in a terminal.

cd /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/
sudo rm -rf amazon-corretto-8.jdk