JetBrains announced the new 2024.2 release of its IntelliJ IDEA integrated development environment (IDE).
The release uses new clean and modern UI as default, while classic one is available as plugin. For Linux, it auto-places window controls to left or right depends on your desktop settings. And, it switched to JetBrains Runtime 21 with enhanced security, performance, as well as Wayland rendering support.
This simple tutorial shows how to install IntelliJ IDEA 2020.3 via its official Linux tarball via PPA.
For those don’t like Snap and Flatpak packages, IntelliJ IDEA offers official Linux tarball in its download page. You can download the package, extract, and run the executable file to launch the IDE.
To make things easy, an installer script was made to automatically download the tarball from Jetbrains website, extract the source to /opt/ directory for global use, and finally create an app shortcut so you can launch the program from system application menu.
And there’s an Ubuntu PPA contains the latest installer scripts for IntelliJ IDEA 2020.3 both community and ultimate editions.
UPDATE: The PPA has been updated to contain script to install “IntelliJ IDEA 2024.1” for Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 18.04, and Ubuntu 16.04.
1.) Open terminal from system application menu. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mmk2410/intellij-idea
Type user password (no asterisk feedback) and hit Enter. The PPA supports all current Ubuntu releases and derivatives.
2.) Then refresh package cache and install the script:
It’s quite easy to install the latest IDEA packages in Ubuntu since Jetbrains offers official snap (containerised software package) package in snappy store.
Simply open Ubuntu Software, search for and you’ll see IDEA ultimate and community packages available for install.
NOTE for Ubuntu 16.04 users who never installed a snap package, make sure snapd is installed by running command in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T):
sudo apt-get install snapd
Then install the package via command (you may replace community in the code with ultimate):
Ability to open HTML files in Edge using the Open in Browser action.
Fixed IntelliJ IDEA freezes.
Git: The built-in SSH doesn’t fail when Git protocol version 2 is enabled.
Fixed regressions in Mercurial support.
Docker: the IDE now validates Command line options and reports unknown options.
Docker: volume mounting now works on Windows using Linux containers.
Minor Gradle bug-fixes.
How to Insall the Latest IntelliJ IDEA in Ubuntu:
It’s quite easy to install the latest IDEA packages in Ubuntu since Jetbrains offers official snap (containerised software package) package in snappy store.
Simply open Ubuntu Software, search for and you’ll see IDEA ultimate and community packages available for install.
NOTE for Ubuntu 16.04 users who never installed a snap package, make sure snapd is installed by running command in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T):
Jet Brains announced the release of IntelliJ IDEA 2017.3 earlier today. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.10, and Ubuntu 18.04.
IntelliJ IDEA 2017.3 is a new massive release that includes loads of new features and dozens of important bugfixes. See the release note for details.
How to Install IntelliJ IDEA 2017.3 in Ubuntu:
There are a few ways to run the latest release of the Java IDE in Ubuntu desktop. And here are 3 of them:
method 1: Download official Linux package (NON-INSTALL), extract and run the executable to launch the IDE:
method 2: Install the Snap package for Ubuntu 16.04 and higher:
Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching ‘terminal’ from app launcher. When it opens, run command:
The official Linux packages are available for download at the link below:
Grab the package, extract, and run the executable to launch the IDE. You may manually create an application shortcut to be able to start it from app launcher.
For Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 17.10, you can also use the installer script that automatically downloads the IDE from JetBrains’ web server, installs it to /opt/, and finally creates an app shortcut for it.