JetBrains Toolbox: The best way to install IntelliJ IDEA on Linux
I’ve been sporting Fedora Workstation 34 with GNOME on both my personal and work laptops. I just wanted something new and hopped to openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE on my personal while keeping Fedora on work laptop. However, like in Fedora, IntelliJ IDEA installation was bit of a pain.
Forget about Snaps although they are easy. I won’t be using Snaps on Fedora or openSUSE period. There was no rpm for IntelliJ IDEA. I found it on Flathub but the problem with Flatpaks is they are sand-boxed and have a hard time finding Java, and even web browsers when executing Selenium scripts. I wrote about how to install the IntelliJ IDEA via tar.gz earlier, but updating the software was a pain.
After some Googling I found the most convenient solution. JetBrains Toolbox!
- Goto their website and download the tar.gz
2. Open Konsole and change the directory
cd /opt/
3. Extract the file
sudo tar -xvzf ~/Downloads/jetbrains-toolbox-1.20.8804.tar.gz
4. Optionally, rename the folder for something easy to type
sudo mv jetbrains-toolbox-1.20.8804 jetbrains
5. Open JetBrains Toolbox. Voila!
jetbrains/jetbrains-toolbox
Not only IntelliJ IDEA, you can install other JetBrains software with ease using JetBrains Toolbox.
