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?
4 Answers
go to the directory through the terminal where the installation files were extracted and
cd bin
./idea.sh
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
PATHenvironment variable? What's the adavantage or difference compared to a direct invocation? 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? Nov 12, 2017 at 0:59
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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. Nov 12, 2017 at 10:37
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This comment helped me, as the application starter auto setup didn't work. Dec 12, 2018 at 3:07
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 )
for your question, I will tell you how to install IntelliJ step by step which I followed.
first download
https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/#section=linux this is for Linux version
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.
- go to the bin folder in the install directory
cd ./{package name}/bin
- install by terminal
./idea.sh
- then install it as normal software
There also other ways to install IntelliJ follow https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/installation-guide.html
binfolder in which you will find a.shscript you can run to start it.