How to install OpenJDK 11 on Windows ?

RAKESH KR
1 min readDec 14, 2022

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To install OpenJDK 11 on Windows, you can follow these steps:

  1. Download the OpenJDK 11 installer from the official website. The installer is available as a ZIP archive, so you will need to extract the files from the archive after downloading it.
  2. Open the extracted folder and navigate to the bin subfolder.
  3. Double-click the java.exe file to launch the OpenJDK 11 installer.
  4. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation process. This will typically involve selecting an installation directory and accepting the license agreement.
  5. Once the installation is complete, you can verify that OpenJDK 11 is installed and working correctly by opening a command prompt and running the java -version command. This should display the version of OpenJDK 11 that is installed on your system.

It is also possible to install OpenJDK 11 using a package manager on some versions of Windows. For example, if you are using Windows 10 with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) installed, you can use the apt package manager to install OpenJDK 11. To do this, you can run the following commands in a terminal window:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install openjdk-11-jdk

These commands will update the package index and install the OpenJDK 11 package from the official Ubuntu repositories. Once the installation is complete, you can run the java -version command to verify that OpenJDK 11 is installed and working correctly.

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