cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified

[zhangyulai]

When I use the tar.gz version of jdk11 and jdk17 on my Mac, I get an error "cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified". How to solve this problem? Thanks!

[morgion]

Could you please provide more details on this subject:

1. Which version of MacOS do you use?
2. Which version of Liberica JDK?

Also it would be good to check your security settings. Described behavior might depend on the following setting (system preferences -> security & privacy -> general tab):

Try to set option to the second variant - 'App Store and identified developers '

Thanks.

[zhangyulai]

My MacOS is 13.3.1, and the security settings is 'App Store and identified developers'.

I downloaded a tar.gz jdk, unpacked it and configured the environment variables. https://download.bell-sw.com/java/11.0.18+10/bellsoft-jdk11.0.18+10-macos-amd64.tar.gz

Then, when I executed the command - 'java -version', I was prompted with an error - 'java cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified'

Thanks.

[morgion]

Thanks for information! Lets try other possibilities and check output of the following commands:

xattr -v bellsoft-jdk11.0.18+10-macos-amd64.tar.gz

After unpacking:

xattr -v jdk-11.0.18.jdk/
xattr -v jdk-11.0.18.jdk/bin/java

Yet another one posibility is that you download bundle using Safari and it is stored in Downloads directory which is under system control. Just copy downloaded bundle to other directory and remove quarantine attribute with

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine bellsoft-jdk11.0.18+10-macos-amd64.tar.gz

Then unpack, check xattr on directory and java executable - there should not be quarantine attribute. I hope after this steps it will work as expected.

[zhangyulai]

Thanks for solving my problem!