SDKMAN¶

SDKMAN! manages parallel versions of multiple Software Development Kits on Unix-based systems.

Note

SDKMAN! primarily serves the JVM ecosystem: Java, Gradle, Maven, Kotlin, Scala, and ~115 other candidates. Each candidate is treated as a package.

Caution

The sdk command is a shell function, not a standalone binary, so mpm detects SDKMAN by its init script (sdkman-init.sh) rather than a binary on PATH and wraps every invocation in bash -c 'source <init> && sdk <args>'.

Note

SDKMAN has no read-only “outdated” verb, so outdated pipes n into sdk upgrade to capture the candidate list without applying any upgrade.

Home page: https://sdkman.io
Source: meta_package_manager/managers/sdkman.py
Version requirement: >=5.0.0

Platforms¶

🐧 Linux
🍎 macOS

Operations¶

Operation	Supported
`installed`	✓
`outdated`	✓
`search`
`install`	✓
`upgrade`	✓
`upgrade_all`	✓
`remove`	✓
`sync`	✓
`cleanup`	✓

Ecosystem¶

Accepted purl types: pkg:sdkman

Usage¶

$ mpm --sdkman installed
$ mpm --sdkman upgrade --all
$ mpm install pkg:sdkman/hello
$ mpm --dry-run --sdkman upgrade --all

Every example above accepts --dry-run, which simulates the underlying manager calls without touching the system: the safe way to watch what mpm would do before trusting it.

Deselect the manager for a single run with --no-sdkman, disable it from your configuration, or tune its invocation attributes with per-manager overrides.

Command line¶

CLI names, in lookup order: sdkman-init.sh
Extra CLI search paths: /home/runner/.sdkman/bin
Environment forced on each call:
- sdkman_auto_answer=true
- sdkman_colour_enable=false

The version is probed by running:

$ sdkman-init.sh version
SDKMAN!
script: 5.18.2
native: 0.4.6

and extracted with:

r"script:\s+(?P<version>\S+)"

Privilege escalation¶

mpm runs this manager as the current user and never prepends sudo by default. Flip the policy for its privileged operations with --sudo or the per-manager sudo override.

See privilege escalation for the full policy.

Cooldown¶

State of SDKMAN’s release-age gating, from the cooldown support table:

Status: ❌ None

With --cooldown set, mpm skips this manager’s install and upgrade operations rather than run them unguarded (fail-closed); --allow-unsupported-managers opts back in.

Reference traces¶

Raw native outputs captured in the manager source: the reference mpm’s parsers were written against. If you know SDKMAN well and a transcript below looks wrong, or a newer release changed its output format, report it.

$ sdk current
Using:
groovy: 4.0.22
java: 21.0.4-tem
scala: 3.4.2