How to Install IntelliJ IDEA IDE in Fedora 31

What is IntelliJ IDEA?

IntelliJ IDEA is a programming environment or IDE. It is widely used for developement of Java programs. It is developed by JetBrains. It also supports PHP, HTML, Javascripts, CSS and Android and many more.

Prerequisites

RAM – Minimum 2 GB
Disk Space – Minimum 3.5 GB
Need the non-root user account with privilege to sudo.

How to download and install IntelliJ IDEA?

First we have to download the IntelliJ IDEA latest package using wget command.

sudo dnf install wget
sudo dnf install tar
sudo wget https://download-cf.jetbrains.com/idea/ideaIC-2019.3.4.tar.gz

Now we have downloaded the IntelliJ IDEA. Next we are going to see how to install the downloaded file.

cd /opt
sudo tar -xvf  /home/doss/Downloads/ideaIC-2019.3.4.tar.gz

Now you have successfully installed IntelliJ IDEA IDE.

How to start the IDE?

You can start the IDE using the following command.

/opt/idea-IC-193.6911.18/bin/idea.sh

Create shortcut or softlink

ln  -s /opt/idea-IC-193.6911.18/bin/idea.sh /usr/bin/idea

Now you can simply type the following command to open the IntelliJ IDEA IDE.

idea

Conclusion

Now we have successfully installed the IntelliJ IDEA IDE in Fedora 31.

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