Location of Intellij Idea 2017.1 on ubuntu 16.04

Question

Long back I have installed Intellij idea. I want to completely remove it now. I deleted /usr/local/bin/idea I delete ~/.IntellXXX directory

I don't see any result if do 'which idea' or 'whereis idea'

However I am still able to find idea and launch it through 'search your computer' I am wondering where is idea installed and is still getting launched.

Answer 1

I installed via "Ubuntu Software"

my location is /snap/intellij-idea-ultimate/current/bin

to locate bin folder I have used:

• (needed to increase RAM)
• "Files" [CTRL + F] "idea"
• found that: /snap/..., Home/..., /var/snap..., /run/user... and more

Answer 2

I guess you don't have enough rights to see your current idea location. Try to issue command like

ls your-path-from-which-idea 

i.e.

which idea | ls

as root and you'll probably see contents of a folder above your current idea install folder. You can remove the folder via full path then as root (via sudo).

Answer 3

To remove the product completely, do the following:

• Delete the installation directory

• Delete the "config" and "system" configuration directories. These contain IntelliJ IDEA's caches, configuration and plugins.

See http://devnet.jetbrains.net/docs/DOC-181 for the OS specific locations of these two directories.

That should be all you need.

Answer 4

Warning: Deleting directories is never a good idea. It can render some package managers broken or software in a extremely difficult to recover half-installed state!

Best always to first uninstall the way you installed it. And after having successfully removed it the correct way, you can start deleting any left-over configuration files.

Some likely ways to check for installations and how to remove (if the installation is ultimate edition):

snap

snap list | grep -i intellij

sudo snap remove intellij-idea-ultimate

flatpak

flatpak list --app | grep -i intellij

sudo flatpak uninstall com.jetbrains.IntelliJ-IDEA-Ultimate

apt

apt list --installed | grep -i intellij

sudo apt purge intellij-idea-ultimate

Answer 5

Not 100% sure if it's that, but I was able to find the location under the shortcut I had on desktop. It was XFCE and I right-clicked on the shortcut, went to "properties" and then "launcher". Under command there was a path that looks like installation directory for me (named idea-IC-191.7479.19).