How to Install IntelliJ on Fedora 24 Easy Guide

Fedora 24 IntelliJ Quick Start

Hi! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-step How to Install IntelliJ on Fedora 24 GNU/Linux KDE/Xfce/Lxde/Mate/GNOME Desktop.

Especially relevant: the tutorials shows the Latest IntelliJ IDEA 2024 Free Community Edition for Java, Groovy, Scala & Android Development Installation.

And Now the Need an Oracle Sun Java SE JDK is Included into the IntelliJ 2017+ Release.

Moreover, to make the whole process Easy to Understand and Visualize the Post Includes the Basic Screenshots of All GUI Steps involved.

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1. First, Open a Command Line Terminal Window
   (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

   

   In case first see: Terminal QuickStart Guide.

2. Download IntelliJ IDEA 2024 for Linux

   IntelliJ IDEA 2024 tar.gz

   IntelliJ IDEA Linux

3. And Extract IntelliJ Archive into /tmp
   Double-Click on Archive:

   
   Or from Shell:

   tar xvzf idea*tar.gz -C /tmp

4. Then Relocate IntelliJ Idea Folder

   sudo su

   If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then see: How to Enable sudo
   Set the root superUser as Holder on IntelliJ:

   sudo chown -R root:root /tmp/idea*

   Then Switch the Content into the /opt Directory

   mv /tmp/idea* /opt/idea

   And Make a Symlink into the working Paths:

   ln -s /opt/idea/bin/idea.sh /usr/local/bin/idea.sh

   exit

5. Finally, to Start IntelliJ IDEA.

   From Terminal with:

   idea.sh

   Over First, Start a Desktop Launcher should be Automatically created…



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