Spring Tool Suite Installation in Debian Bullseye – Step-by-step

Installing

2. 2. Downloading STS

   Download Latest Spring Tool Suite for Linux

   Spring Tool Suite .tar.gz

   Spring Tool Suite

   Grab the Linux 64-bit Release.

3. 3. Extracting STS

   Then Extract Archive into /tmp.

   
   Or from Command Line:

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

4. 4. Installing Java JDK

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5. 5. Relocating STS

   Next follow Setting Up STS
   (For a Local Installation Skip this Step and Run it from within Home)
   First, Set root as Owner:

   sudo chown -R root:root /tmp/sts*.RELEASE

   Finally, Switch contents into the Destination Directory:

   sudo mv /tmp/sts*.RELEASE /opt/

6. 6. Amending User’s Path

   Again Append STS into the Path
   This is strictly needed only to Work with STS from Command Line..

   echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/opt/sts-[x.y.z].RELEASE' >> ~/.bashrc

   Change [x.y.z] in the above Command with the actual STS Release you get from:

   ls /opt | grep sts

   And finally, Reload the Path with:

   bash