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Cannot install Java JDK: semicolon found in selected path

There's no semi colon in the install path. But you still get the error:

        semicolon found in selected path

Solution is to move the install .exe to c:\ and run it again.

Possibly with command line switches: /v"/L c:\install.log"

(Search results show that this same issue has existed for 11 years!)