CLion CentOS 8.x/Stream-8 Installation – Step-by-step

Installing

2. 2. Downloading CLion IDE

   Download CLion for CentOS GNU/Linux

   Get CLion for CentOS

   CLion for CentOS

   If possible Select directly “Open with Archive Manager”!

3. 3. Extracting CLion IDE

   Then Extract CLion into /tmp
   Possibly Double-Click on Archive:

   

   Or from Shell:

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

4. 4. Fixing Permissions

   Again to Set Ownership to SuperUser
   Run:

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

   Authenticate with the User Admin Pass.
   If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then see: How to Enable sudo.

5. 5. Relocating CLion IDE

   Now to Setup CLion Binaries
   Simply play:

   sudo mv /tmp/clion* /opt/clion

6. 6. Setting up User’s Path

   Again Append CLion into the Path (Optional)
   This is strictly needed only to Work with CLion from Command Line.

   echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/opt/clion/bin' >> ~/.bashrc

   Reload the Path with:

   bash