Open the Liberica NIK Download Center in your browser. Click ‘Download .DMG’ and start the download. After it is finished, check the file by comparing its size on your drive and the downloads page. A more advanced approach is to verify the checksum in the command line:

The checksum should match the one next to the link on the downloads page.

To run the installer, double-click on the file you have just downloaded.

Double-click on the pkg icon to open the Install Liberica NIK Wizard.

Click Continue.

Optionally, you can change the install location. Press ‘Change Install Location’ for that or ‘Install’ to proceed with the default location.

Allow new software installation. The file will start copying immediately.

Press ‘Close’ to dismiss the installation wizard.

Liberica NIK 23.0.0 is installed to the /Library/Java/LibericaNativeImageKit/liberica-vm-23.0.0-openjdk17/ directory, or another directory with a similar name in /Library/Java/LibericaNativeImageKit, depending on the selected version of the JDK and package type (core, standard, or full). You can use the $NIK_HOME environment variable to store the path to the installed package: /Library/Java/LibericaNativeImageKit/liberica-vm-23.0.0-openjdk17/Contents/Home/.

To install Liberica NIK, download the .zip package.

After the download is finished, check the file by comparing its size on your drive and the downloads page. A more advanced approach is to verify the checksum in the command line:

Now unpack it.

This will unpack Liberica NIK to /Library/Java/LibericaNativeImageKit/. Either add Contents/Home/bin subdirectory to $PATH, or remember /Library/Java/LibericaNativeImageKit/bellsoft-liberica-vm-openjdk17.0.7+7-23.0.0+1/Contents/Home/ as the $NIK_HOME environment variable.

To uninstall Liberica NIK, simply remove this directory and unset the related environmental variables.

With the exception of the Core version (which comes bundled with native image plugin and does not allow the installation of additional components), all packages of Native Image Kit contain a component updater called gu. You can use it to install or update Native Image Kit plugins or add support for additional languages in the distribution.

Open the terminal and type:

You’ll see a list of available languages:

Execute $NIK_HOME/bin/gu install [language] to install a specific language. For example, $NIK_HOME/bin/gu install python.

This can be also executed manually:

If Liberica Native Image Kit was installed in /Library/Java/LibericaNativeImageKit or another location requiring root privileges, you might have to use sudo to perform administrative tasks, such as installing additional components or rebuilding the images.

xcode is required for Liberica Native Image Kit. Install necessary tools with the following command:

Open the Liberica NIK Download Center in your browser. Click ‘Download .RPM’ or ‘Download .DEB’ and start the download. After it is finished, check the file by comparing its size on your drive and the downloads page. A more advanced approach is to verify the checksum in the command line:

The checksum should match the one next to the link on the downloads page.

Install the package using the appropriate package manager. See our example for Apt:

Or for an RPM-base system:

The package is installed to /opt/bellsoft/liberica-vm-23.0.0-openjdk17/.

For scripting purposes, it may be beneficial to add the ${NIK_HOME} environment variable which would point to your Native Image Kit installation directory.

To install Liberica NIK, download the .tar.gz package.

After the download is finished, check the file by comparing its size on your drive and the downloads page. A more advanced approach is to verify the checksum in the command line:

Unpack it with the following command.

This will unpack Liberica NIK to the selected directory. Either add $INSTALL_DIR/bellsoft-liberica-vm-openjdk17-23.0.0/bin to $PATH, or remember $INSTALL_DIR/bellsoft-liberica-vm-openjdk17-23.0.0 as the $NIK_HOME environment variable.

To uninstall Liberica NIK, simply remove this directory and unset the related environmental variables.

Open the terminal and type:

You’ll see a list of available languages:

Execute $NIK_HOME/bin/gu install [language] to install specific language. For example, $NIK_HOME/bin/gu install python.

This can be also executed manually:

If Liberica Native Image Kit was installed via a package manager or in a location requiring root privileges, you might have to use sudo to perform administrative tasks, such as installing additional components or rebuilding the images.

Several libraries are required for Liberica Native Image Kit on Linux systems. It is possible to install these libraries on Debian-based systems with the following command:

Installable components also have dependencies on additional libraries. Truffleruby depends on libssl-dev, and FastR depends on libgfortran4.

You can use a similar command to install dependencies on rpm-based systems. See this example for CentOS:

Other types of Linux systems may require different packages.

Open the Liberica NIK Download Center in your browser. Click ‘Download .DMG’ and start the download. After it is finished, check the file by comparing its size on your drive and the downloads page. A more advanced approach is to verify the checksum in the command line:

The checksum should match the one next to the link on the downloads page.

Install the package using the appropriate package manager. See our example for Apt:

The package is installed to /opt/bellsoft/liberica-vm-23.0.0-openjdk17/.

For scripting purposes, it may be beneficial to add the ${NIK_HOME} environment variable which would point to your Native Image Kit installation directory.

To install Liberica NIK, download the .tar.gz package.

After the download is finished, check the file by comparing its size on your drive and the downloads page. A more advanced approach is to verify the checksum in the command line:

Unpack it with the following command.

This will unpack Liberica NIK to the selected directory. Either add $INSTALL_DIR/bellsoft-liberica-vm-openjdk17-23.0.0/bin to $PATH, or remember $INSTALL_DIR/bellsoft-liberica-vm-openjdk17-23.0.0 as the $NIK_HOME environment variable.

To uninstall Liberica NIK, simply remove this directory and unset the related environmental variables. This concludes the native image Alpine Linux example.

Open the terminal and type:

You’ll see a list of available languages:

Execute $NIK_HOME/bin/gu install [language] to install specific language. For example, $NIK_HOME/bin/gu install python.

This can be also executed manually:

If Liberica Native Image Kit was installed via a package manager or in a location requiring root privileges, you might have to use sudo to perform administrative tasks, such as installing additional components or rebuilding the images.

Several libraries are required for Liberica Native Image Kit on Alpine Linux. It is possible to install these libraries with the following command:

Installable components also have dependencies on additional libraries. Truffleruby depends on openssl-dev, and FastR depends on libgfortran.

Open the Liberica NIK Download Center in your browser. Click ‘Download .MSI’ and start the download. After it is finished, check the file by comparing its size on your drive and the downloads page. A more advanced approach is to verify the checksum in PowerShell:

The checksum should match the one next to the link on the downloads page.

To run the installer, double-click on the file you have just downloaded. This will open the Liberica NIK Setup Wizard.

Press ‘Next’ on the welcome screen.

Choose features you need and press ‘Next’. Select a feature to see the description. If in doubt, skip this step and press ‘Next’.

The package is ready to install, press ‘Install’.

If you want to install Liberica NIK silently, open the command line and run the following command:

Liberica NIK is installed to the C:\Program Files\BellSoft\LibericaNIK-23-OpenJDK-17 directory by default. For scripting purposes, it may be beneficial to add the $NIK_HOME environment variable which would point to your Native Image Kit installation directory.

To install Liberica NIK, download the .zip package and unpack it.

If you do not want to or cannot do it via GUI, use PowerShell:

This will unpack Liberica NIK to the current directory. Either add bin subdirectory to PATH, or remember this directory as the $NIK_HOME environment variable.

Open the terminal and type:

You’ll see a list of available languages:

Execute "%NIK_HOME%\bin\gu.cmd" install [language] to install a specific language. For example, "%NIK_HOME%\bin\gu.cmd" install nodejs.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 with Microsoft Visual C++ (MSVC) 15 or later is required for Liberica Native Image Kit.

Start x64 Native Tools Command Prompt to allow native-image and other utilities to find development tools and work from command prompt.