Step-by-step – Spring Tool Suite Installation in Ubuntu 20.04 Guide

Installing

2. 2. Downloading Spring Tool Suite

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   Spring Tool Suite .zip

   Spring Tool Suite

3. 3. Extracting Spring Tool Suite

   Then Extract Spring Tool Suite
   Double-Click on Archive and Extract into /tmp.

   
   Or from Shell:

   tar xvzf ~/Downloads/spring-tool-suite*tar.gz -C /tmp/

4. 4. Java Setup

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5. 5. Installing Spring Tool Suite

   Then to Install Spring Tool Suite
   First, Set the SuperUser as Owner with:

   sudo chmod -R root:root /tpm/spring-tool-suite

   If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then see: How to Enable sudo
   Next Relocate Spring Tool Suite:

   sudo mv /tpm/spring-tool-suite /opt/

   And finally, Make a Symlink for Easy Launching:

   sudo ln -s /opt/spring-tool-suite/sts[yourRelease]/STS /usr/local/bin/STS

   Just Replace [yourRelease] with the Actual release…
   To Find out exactly which one do:

   ls /opt | grep sts/ | grep sts