If you are struggling to set up IntelliJ IDEA and  don't know where to start then this guide is for you. I hope this guide will help you and will make things easy. Let’s get started.

♦ Setting Up IntelliJ IDEA

Download the IntelliJ IDEA (www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/) and extract its contents to ‘/opt/’ and install it by running the bellow commands.

cd /opt/ 

sudo tar -xvzf ~/Downloads/ideaI* #extract the files

sudo mv idea-IU-203.5981.155 idea # Rename the folder (optional)

./idea/bin/idea.sh #Run the installer

Follow the instructions to installer the IDE. Once done, close the IDE and create a file named 'jetbrains-idea.desktop' and put below content in it

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition
Icon=/opt/idea/bin/idea.svg
Exec="/opt/idea/bin/idea.sh" %f
Comment=Capable and Ergonomic IDE for JVM
Categories=Development;IDE;
Terminal=false
StartupWMClass=jetbrains-idea

Finally, run the below command to make a launch icon in your applications' menu.

sudo desktop-file-install jetbrains-idea.desktop

Congratulations! You should have successfully set up IntelliJ IDEA in your Linux distro.

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