Step-by-step – IntelliJ IDEA Installation in Debian Buster

Installing

2. 2. Downloading IntelliJ IDEA

   Download Latest IntelliJ IDEA for Linux

   IntelliJ for Linux tar.gz

   IntelliJ IDEA Linux

3. 3. Extracting IntelliJ IDEA

   Double-Click on Debian Busterive and Extract into /tmp
   Or from Shell with

   tar xvzf ~/Downloads/idea*.tar.gz -C /tmp/

   

4. 4. Installing IntelliJ IDEA

   Then Relocate IntelliJ Idea Folder
   Set the root superUser as Holder of IntelliJ IDEA:

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

   If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then see: How to Enable sudo
   Next Switch the Content into the /opt Directory:

   sudo mv /tmp/idea* /opt/idea

   And Make a Symlink into the working Paths:

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

5. 5. Setting Up Java

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