#Ubuntu Intellij Setup
Download Ultimate 64bit https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/#chooseYourEdition and extract to your user’s home /home/$USER/bin
Open terminal to the extracted bin directory cd /home/$USER/bin/idea-IU-*/bin/
Make the idea shell script executable chmod
chmod a+x idea.sh
Execute from bin directory
./idea.sh
Shell Launcher
From Intellij Tools/Create Command Line Launcher /usr/local/bin/idea
Ubuntu Launcher
Create using “Lock to Launcher” or verify exists in location .local/share/applications/jetbrains-idea.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=IntelliJ IDEA
Icon=/home/FIXME/bin/idea-IU-162.2032.8/bin/idea.png
Exec="/home/FIXME/bin/idea-IU-162.2032.8/bin/idea.sh" %f
Comment=The Drive to Develop
Categories=Development;IDE;
Terminal=false
StartupWMClass=jetbrains-idea
##References
sudo update-alternatives --config java
The update-alternatives for Java doesn’t set the JAVA_HOME system environment.
See Setting the JAVA_HOME Environment Variable
Locations in Ubuntu for setting system and user session environment variables.
EnvironmentVariables#Session-wide_environment_variables
echo oracle-java8-installer shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1 select true | sudo debconf-set-selections
echo oracle-java8-installer shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1 seen true | sudo debconf-set-selections