IntelliJ IDEA

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
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Linux Installation Instructions

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1. Unpack the IntelliJ IDEA distribution archive that you downloaded to
where you wish to install the program. We will refer to this destination
location as your {installation home} below.

2. Open a console and cd into "{installation home}/bin" and type:

./idea.sh

to start the application. As a side effect, this will initialize various

configuration files in the ~/.IdeaIC2018.1 directory.

3. [OPTIONAL] Add "{installation home}/bin" to your PATH environment

variable so that you may start IntelliJ IDEA from any directory.

4. [OPTIONAL] To adjust the value of the JVM heap size, create

~/.IdeaIC2018.1/idea.vmoptions (or idea64.vmoptions
if using a 64-bit JDK), and set the -Xms and -Xmx parameters. To see how
to do this, you can reference the vmoptions file under
"{installation home}/bin" as a model.

[OPTIONAL] Changing the location of "config" and "system" directories

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By default, IntelliJ IDEA stores all your settings under the
~/.IdeaIC2018.1/config
directory and uses ~/.IdeaIC2018.1/system as a data cache.
If you want to change these settings,

1. Open a console and cd into ~/.IdeaIC2018.1/config

2. Create the file "idea.properties" and open it in an editor. Set the

idea.system.path and/or idea.config.path variables as desired, for
example:

idea.system.path=~/custom/system
idea.config.path=~/custom/config

3. Note that we recommend to store data cache ("system" directory) on a disk

with at least 1GB of free space.

Enjoy!

-IntelliJ IDEA Development Team