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I have installed JDK8 from Oracle and IntelliJ using this tutorial; Good Intellij installation on ubuntu 15

I am on step #4 where I am supposed to "Start IntelliJ to configure and create a desktop entry". How do I start it?

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  • Inside the directory containing IntelliJ, there will be a bin folder in which you will find a .sh script you can run to start it.
    – You'reAGitForNotUsingGit
    Aug 21, 2017 at 12:34

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go to the directory through the terminal where the installation files were extracted and 

cd bin
./idea.sh
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Add the bin folder to your path variable. Your path variable can be edited with sudo vi /etc/environment.
As with all sudo commands, care should be taken. Think before you write and don't just copy what i wrote.

in /etc/environment, you should see PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:[more path locations]"
in /etc/environment, Add the following line after the lasth path, before the double quote that ends the variable:
:/path/to/intelliJ/bin/folder.
In the case of the linked guide you would have to add: :/opt/idea-IC/bin.

Then you have to log out (or reboot) for the changes you made to take effect. Afterwards you should be able to start intelliJ by running the command idea.sh

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  • Could you please explain why it's necessary to add IntelliJ to the PATH environment variable? What's the adavantage or difference compared to a direct invocation?
    – David Foerster
    Nov 11, 2017 at 17:56
  • The advantage to adding it to the path variable is that you can call it from anywhere without having to enter the full path every time. - Unless i'm mistaken?
    – Nick Dewitte
    Nov 12, 2017 at 0:59
  • That's correct, but considering that OP's aim is to to follow the tutorial which suggests to start the application once which will then set up an application starter, I don't find your approach useful enough to justify the additional complexity. Hence the down-vote.
    – David Foerster
    Nov 12, 2017 at 10:37
  • This comment helped me, as the application starter auto setup didn't work.
    – Steven Laidlaw
    Dec 12, 2018 at 3:07
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Go to the in the idea-ic extracted folder idea/bin(using cd command like cd /idea/bin) and then run the command:

To run in the background: ./idea.sh & (with the if you close the terminal then IntelliJ still run )

To run without background: ./idea.sh (with the if you close the terminal then IntelliJ also exit )

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for your question, I will tell you how to install IntelliJ step by step which I followed.

  1. first download

    https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/#section=linux this is for Linux version

  2. Then Extract .gz file

sudo tar -xzf {package name}.tar.gz -C /opt

make sure to add your package name

x: This tells tar to extract the files.

v: This option will list all of the files one by one in the archive. The “v” stands for “verbose.”

f: This option tells tar that you are going to give it a file name to work with.

  1. go to the bin folder in the install directory

cd ./{package name}/bin

  1. install by terminal

./idea.sh

  1. then install it as normal software

There also other ways to install IntelliJ follow https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/installation-guide.html

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