I'm trying to run the command sudo apt update
on my terminal in MacOS
I'm getting this message in response: The operation couldn’t be completed. Unable to locate a Java Runtime that supports apt. Please visit http://www.java.com for information on installing Java.
I saw a similar question here, however even though I made sure to install the JDK like the solution suggested I'm still getting the same response.
I also tried pasting
export PATH="$HOME/.jenv/bin:$PATH"
eval "$(jenv init -)"
export JAVA_HOME="$HOME/.jenv/versions/`jenv version-name`"
Into my .zshrc.save folder and had no luck.
When I run java -version
in the terminal this is what I get back:
java version "15.0.2" 2021-01-19
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 15.0.2+7-27)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 15.0.2+7-27, mixed mode, sharing)
20 years ago, java shipped with a tool called apt
: Annotation Processor Tool. This tool was obsolete not much later.
What that update-node-js-version is talking about, is a completely and totally unrelated tool: It's the Advanced Package Tool
, which is a tool to manage installations on debian and ubuntu - linux distros. You do not want to run this on a mac, and the instructions you found are therefore completely useless: That is how to update node-js on linux. Your machine isn't linux.
Search around for answers involving brew
, which is the go-to equivalent of apt
on mac. And completely forget about java - this has NOTHING to do with java - that was just a pure coincidence.