Updating SDKMAN to see your favorite new shiny JDK

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Sigh. SDKMAN.io has gone from being one of my favorite tools to being this never ending disappointment. What process could result in buildings taking this long to show up? It sometimes lags days behind a given JDK's release. Case in point, one OpenJDK distriution, GraalVM, has been available for days but is still not available in SDKMAN. So, while we wait. Here's how you can install the JDK on your own system. I'm assuming you're using macOS.


# first get the bits 
curl -LO https://gds.oracle.com/download/graal/25i2/latest/graalvm-jdk-25i2-25_macos-aarch64_bin.tar.gz

# download it somewhere 
mkdir ~/bin/graalvm 
cd ~/bin/

# unzip it 
tar -xvf graalvm-jdk-25i2-25.0.4_macos-aarch64_bin.tar.gz -C graalvm

# install it
sdk install java 25.2.4-graal $HOME/bin/graalvm/graalvm-25.2.4+7.1/Contents/Home

# make it available system-wide.
sdk default java 25.2.4-graal 

sigh.

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