cannot find keytool on a mac

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I am trying to find my keytool so that I can make keys to sign my app and to register for the google maps api

I'm beginning to think that I don't actually have it on my machine

If anyone could help point me in the right direction that would be great

score 30 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 15 '14 at 06:47

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To answer the original question, on my Mac, keytool is found at /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_45.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/keytool.

You can locate the Java home directory using the /usr/libexec/java_home command line tool on Mac OS X 10.5 or later.

edited Jul 15 '14 at 06:47

Sufian

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Reefwing

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Important to note that [if you do not have Java installed you will get the following output `Unable to find any JVMs matching version "(null)".`](https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3879451) – T.Woody Sep 08 '18 at 20:21

Armand · Answer 2 · 2011-09-03T11:47:45.997

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The actual tool should be installed all ready, as to my knowledge it ships with the MAC. You then have to create the .keystore file http://www.androiddevelopment.org/tag/keytool/ shows how to do it

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answered Sep 03 '11 at 11:37

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DonGru · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-03T13:41:08.070

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If you are using Eclipse under Mac OS X you just need to
Select File -> Export -> select Android -> Export Android Application -> click next -> select your project -> click next -> here you just chose Create new keystore

edited Sep 03 '11 at 13:41

answered Sep 03 '11 at 12:00

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Actually this has only solved my issue in part. I now need to find my MD5 fingerprint, The guide on the android developers site says that I need to execute this line: $ keytool -list -alias alias_name -keystore my-release-key.keystore but there is now ".keystore" file in the folder that I specified when creating the keystore by your method, does this file get created in another folder? – Ian Sep 05 '11 at 09:54

Mahesh Jamdade · Answer 4 · 2022-03-06T06:31:07.307

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If you already have android studio installed, then keytool is located at

/Applications/Android\ Studio.app/Contents/jre/jdk/Contents/Home/bin/keytool

example to generate sha1 and sha256 using keytool

/Applications/Android\ Studio.app/Contents/jre/jdk/Contents/Home/bin/keytool -genkey -v -keystore ~/key.jks -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000 -alias key

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answered Jan 02 '21 at 14:20

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Saved my Day mate. Thanks! – BlizZard Mar 06 '22 at 06:14
Glad I could help :) – Mahesh Jamdade Mar 06 '22 at 06:31

score 1 · Answer 5 · edited Oct 16 '18 at 22:01

I did the following and it worked for me:

/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_161.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/keytool -genkey -v -keystore my-release-key.keystore -alias my_keystone -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000
jarsigner -verbose -sigalg SHA256withRSA -digestalg SHA1 -keystore my-release-key.keystore app-release-unsigned.apk my_keystone
/Users/developer/Library/Android/sdk/build-tools/28.0.3/zipalign -v 4 app-release-unsigned.apk nameapp.apk

cannot find keytool on a mac

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