How to Install & Getting Started for Aptana Studio 3 IDE Standalone for HTML5, CSS, Javascript With PHP and Ruby on Rails Web-Development on Linux Fedora 18 Gnome3 32bit/64bit Desktop Step-by-Step Easy Visual-Guide

February 19, 2013 | By Regaz.

The Visual Guide shows you Step-by-Step How to Install and Getting-Started with the Aptana Studio 3 IDE Standalone for Fedora 18 GNOME3 i686/x8664 Desktop.

Build web applications quickly and easily using the World’s Most Powerful Open-Source Web Development IDE. Aptana Studio harnesses the flexibility of Eclipse and focuses it into a powerful web development engine.

Aptana Studio 3 expands on the core capabilities of Aptana Studio 2 for Building, Editing, Previewing and Debugging HTML5, CSS and JavaScript Websites with PHP and Ruby on Rails Web Development.

To Make the whole Process Easier to Reproduce the Posts Includes the Basic Screenshots of All GUI Steps involved.

The Tutorial is Practical and Contains Just the Essentials Installation Instructions and Commands.

How to Install Aptana Studio 3 IDE on Fedora GNU/Linux Distro

  1. Download Standalone Aptana Studio 3 for Linux.

    Aptana-Studio Linux x86/x64 .zip

  • Extract Archive into /tmp
    Possibly Double-Click on it in the File Manager:

    Linux GNOME3 Aptana Studio 3 Archive Extraction

  • Open Terminal Window
    (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

    Fedora Linux GNOME3 Open Terminal

  • Relocate Aptana-Studio

    • System Wide Installation: 

      sudo chown -R root:root /tmp/Aptana_Studio*
      mv /tmp/Aptana_Studio_3 /opt
      ln -s /opt/Aptana_Studio_3/AptanaStudio3 /usr/local/bin/aptanaS3

    • Local Installation: 

      mv /tmp/Aptana_Studio_3 ~

  • Starting Aptana Studio 3 from Terminal

    • System-Wide Setup Launcher Terminal Command: 

      aptanaS3

    • Local Installation Launcher Terminal Command: 

      ~/Aptana_Studio_3/AptanaStudio3

  • Create an Aptana-Studio3 App Launcher.

    Launcher for GNOME3 Desktop Guide
    How to Create an Application Launcher for a GNOME 3 Linux Desktop
    • Linux Aptana Studio 3 GUI

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    Eclipse 2023-03 R IDE JEE for Fedora
    Installing Eclipse for Java JEE on Fedora Linux Distro