How to install Intellij IDEA on Ubuntu

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I m new to Ubuntu and Linux in general  I want to code in Java on my computer  but I m having problems installing IntelliJ IDEA on Ubuntu  I have downloaded and extracted the file and for some reason renamed the folder to idea  I tried moving the folder to  usr share applications or something but I didn t have permission  I used sudo -i in terminal to gain permission but didn t manage to get out of root folder  Can anyone help me with a step by step way to move the folder  create a shortcut in the search bar or whatever it s called and install it properly

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Since Ubuntu 18 04 installing Intellij IDEA is easy  You just need to search  IDEA  in Software Center  Also you re able to choose a branch to install  I use EAP     For earlier versions   According to this  snap  and this  umake  articles the most comfortable ways are     to use snap-packages  since versions IDEA  2017 3  amp  Ubuntu  14 04     install snapd system  Since Ubuntu  16 04 you already have it  install IDEA snap-package or even EAP build  to use ubuntu-make  for Ubuntu versions earlier than 16 04 use apt-get command instead apt      Add PPA ubuntu-desktop ubuntu-make  if you install ubuntu-make from standard repo you ll see only a few IDE s      sudo add-apt-repository ppa ubuntu-desktop ubuntu-make  Install ubuntu-make     sudo apt update   sudo apt install ubuntu-make  install preffered ide  IDEA  for this question      umake ide idea   or even ultimate version if you need     umake ide idea-ultimate  I upgrade Intellij IDEA via reinstalling it     umake -r ide idea-ultimate    umake ide idea-ultimate

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Standalone installation  Download the tarball tar gz   Extract the tarball to a directory that supports file execution    For example  to extract it to the recommended  opt directory  run the following command  sudo tar -xzf ideaIC-2020 3 tar gz -C  opt   Go to  opt folder and open intellij folder  Go to  bin folder and execute the command sh idea sh   Now the application opened and create the desktop shortcut if you need

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JetBrains has a new application called the Toolbox App which quickly and easily installs any JetBrains software you want  assuming you have the license   It also manages your login once to apply across all JetBrains software  a very useful feature   To use it  download the tar gz file here  then extract it and run the included executable jetbrains-toolbox   Then sign in  and press install next to IntelliJ IDEA     If you want to move the executable to  usr bin  feel free  however it works fine out of the box wherever you extract it to   This will also make the appropriate desktop entries upon install

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TL DR     Download IntelliJ IDEA from here  cd Downloads extract the downloaded file  sudo tar xf ideaIC-2017 2 5 tar gz -C  opt  Switch to the bin directory  cd  opt idea-IC-172 4343 14 bin  Run idea sh from the bin subdirectory

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Recent IntelliJ versions allows automatic creation of desktop entry  See this gist   Launch from commandline  If launching for the first time  setup will ask about creating a desktop launcher icon  say yes  Or else after launching  ie  from the commandline  any time  use the IDEA menu Configure   Create Desktop Entry   That should create  usr share applications intellij-idea-community desktop Trigger the Ubuntu desktop search  ie  Windows key   find the Intellij IDEA you used to create the desktop entry  Drag the icon it s showing into the Ubuntu Launcher

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You can also try my ubuntu repository  https   launchpad net  mmk2410  archive ubuntu intellij-idea  To use it just run the following commands   sudo apt-add-repository ppa mmk2410 intellij-idea sudo apt-get update   The community edition can then installed with  sudo apt-get install intellij-idea-community   and the ultimate edition with  sudo apt-get install intellij-idea-ultimate

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try simple way to install intellij idea   Install IntelliJ on Ubuntu using Ubuntu Make   You need to install Ubuntu Make first  If you are using Ubuntu 16 04  18 04 or a higher version  you can install Ubuntu Make using the command below    sudo apt install ubuntu-make   Once you have Ubuntu Make installed  you can use the command below to install IntelliJ IDEA Community edition    umake ide idea   To install the IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate edition  use the command below    umake ide idea-ultimate   To remove IntelliJ IDEA installed via Ubuntu Make  use the command below for your respective versions    umake -r ide idea umake -r ide idea-ultimate   you may visit for more option   https   itsfoss com install-intellij-ubuntu-linux

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I needed to install various JetBrains tools on a number of machines from CLI  so I wrote a tiny tool to help with that  It also uses cleaner APIs from JB making it hopefully more stable  and works for various JB tools   Feel free to try it  https   github com MarcinZukowski jetbrains-installer

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I find and follow this youtube   https   www youtube com watch v PbW-doAiAvI  Basically  download the tar gz package  extract into  opt   and then run the  idea sh  under bin folder  i e   opt idea-IC-163 7743 44 bin idea sh   Enjoy

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Note  This answer covers the installation of IntelliJ IDEA  For an extended script  that covers more JetBrains IDEs  as well as help for font rendering issues  please see this link provided by brendan  Furthermore  a manual Desktop Entry creation is optional  as newer versions of IntelliJ offer to create it on first startup     I have my intellij int  opt folder  So what I do is     Download Intellij Extract intellij to  opt-folder  sudo tar -xvf  lt intellij tar gt  -C  opt   the -C option extracts the tar to the folder  opt   Create a Desktop Entry File called idea desktop  see example file below  and store it anywhere you want  let s assume in your home directory  Move the idea desktop from your home directory to  usr share applications  sudo mv   idea desktop  usr share applications    Now  in a lot  Ubuntu versions you can start the application after the GUI is restarted  If you don t know how to do that  you can restart your PC     idea desktop  this is for community edition version 14 1 2  you have to change the paths in Exec  and Icon  lines if the path is different for you     Desktop Entry                                                                   Encoding UTF-8 Name IntelliJ IDEA Comment IntelliJ IDEA Exec  opt ideaIC-14 1 2 bin idea sh Icon  opt ideaIC-14 1 2 bin idea png Terminal false StartupNotify true Type Application     Edit I also found a shell script that does this for you  here  The given script in the link installs Oracle Java 7 for you and gives you the choice between Community and Ultimate Edition  It then automatically downloads the newest version for you  extracts it and creates a desktop entry  I have modified the scripts to fulfill my needs  It does not install java 8 and it does not ask you for the version you want to install  but the version is kept in a variable to easily change that   You can also update Intellij with it  But then you have to  so far  manually remove the old folder  This is what i got    Edit2 Here is the new version of the script  As mentioned in the comments  breandan has updated the script to be more stable  the jetbrains website changed its behavior   Thanks for the update  breandan       bin sh  echo  Installing IntelliJ IDEA        We need root to install     id -u      0     amp  amp  exec sudo   0          Attempt to install a JDK   apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk   add-apt-repository ppa webupd8team java  amp  amp  apt-get update  amp  amp  apt-get install oracle-java8-installer    Prompt for edition  while true  do      read -p  Enter  U  for Ultimate or  C  for Community    ed       case  ed in           Uu     ed U  break             Cc     ed C  break        esac  done ed C    Fetch the most recent version VERSION   wget  https   www jetbrains com intellij-repository releases  -qO-   grep -P -o -m 1     lt  https   www jetbrains com intellij-repository releases com jetbrains intellij idea BUILD                  Prepend base URL for download URL  https   download jetbrains com idea ideaI ed- VERSION tar gz   echo  URL    Truncate filename FILE   basename   URL      Set download directory DEST   Downloads  FILE  echo  Downloading idea-I ed- VERSION to  DEST        Download binary wget -cO   DEST    URL  --read-timeout 5 --tries 0  echo  Download complete      Set directory name DIR   opt idea-I ed- VERSION   echo  Installing to  DIR     Untar file if mkdir   DIR   then     tar -xzf   DEST  -C   DIR  --strip-components 1 fi    Grab executable folder BIN   DIR bin     Add permissions to install directory chmod -R  rwx   DIR     Set desktop shortcut path DESK  usr share applications IDEA desktop    Add desktop shortcut echo -e   Desktop Entry  nEncoding UTF-8 nName IntelliJ IDEA nComment IntelliJ IDEA nExec   BIN  idea sh nIcon   BIN  idea png nTerminal false nStartupNotify true nType Application  -e  gt    DESK     Create symlink entry ln -s   BIN  idea sh  usr local bin idea  echo  Done         Old Version      bin sh                                                                                                                                     echo  Installing IntelliJ IDEA        We need root to install     id -u      0     amp  amp  exec sudo   0          define version  ultimate  change to  C  for Community  ed  U     Fetch the most recent community edition URL URL   wget  https   www jetbrains com idea download download thanks jsp edition I  ed  amp os linux  -qO-   grep -o -m 1  https   download jetbrains com idea   gz    echo  URL    URL   echo  basename url     basename   URL       Truncate filename FILE   basename   URL    echo  File    FILE      Download binary wget -cO  tmp   FILE    URL  --read-timeout 5 --tries 0    Set directory name DIR    FILE   tar  gz      Untar file if mkdir  opt   DIR   then     tar -xvzf  tmp   FILE  -C  opt   DIR  --strip-components 1 fi    Grab executable folder BIN   opt  DIR bin     Add permissions to install directory chmod 755   BIN  idea sh    Set desktop shortcut path DESK  usr share applications IDEA desktop    Add desktop shortcut                      echo -e   Desktop Entry  nEncoding UTF-8 nName IntelliJ IDEA nComment IntelliJ IDEA nExec   BIN  idea sh nIcon   BIN  idea png nTerminal false nStartupNotify true nType Application   gt    DESK   echo  Done

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Since Ubuntu 16 04 includes snapd by default  So  the easiest way to install the stable version is   IntelliJ IDEA Community    sudo snap install intellij-idea-community --classic IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate    sudo snap install intellij-idea-ultimate --classic   For the latest version use channel --edge   sudo snap install intellij-idea-community --classic --edge  Here is the list of all channels https   snapcraft io intellij-idea-ultimate  drop down  All versions     options  --classic     The --classic option is required because the IntelliJ IDEA snap requires full access to the system  like a traditionally packaged application     https   www jetbrains com help idea install-and-set-up-product html install-on-linux-with-snaps    --edge     --edge Install from the edge channel    http   manpages ubuntu com manpages bionic man1 snap 1 html    Note  Snap  also work a few major distributions  Arch  Debian  Fedora  openSUSE  Linux Mint

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In a simple manner you can also try to just run a pre-packaged docker with intellij  I found the good job of  dlsniper   https   hub docker com r dlsniper docker-intellij   you just need to have docker installed and to run    docker run -tdi          --net  host           --privileged true          -e DISPLAY   DISPLAY           -v  tmp  X11-unix  tmp  X11-unix          -v   HOME   IdeaIC2016 1 docker  home developer  IdeaIC2016 1          -v   GOPATH   home developer go          dlsniper docker-intellij

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