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recently I installed IntelliJ Ultimate under linux with command sudo ./idea.sh, and it somehow installed somewhere in my roots of linux. When i run just ./idea.sh to install, it installs under my user and everything is fine. Question is: Where I can find those folders unders roots to delete config files, because i want to delete it completely from roots. I searched a lot, but did not find anything.

Kalle Richter
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You should delete these two directories:

/root/.IdeaIC2017.1/
/root/IdeaProjects

Note that you will need to open it from the terminal as root or use your file manager with root privileges (for example, run sudo -i) since non-root users can't access that directory.

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  • Yes , tried this yesterday. – m0ar'nd'm0re Apr 18 '17 at 13:43
  • " By default, IntelliJ IDEA stores all your settings under the ~/.IdeaIC2017.1/config directory and uses ~/.IdeaIC2017.1/system as a data cache." Right from IntelliJ's README – m0ar'nd'm0re Apr 18 '17 at 14:10
  • I don't see why not, running it with sudo is basically running it with the root account. Beside that, I have tried it and It turned to be it in my case. – m0ar'nd'm0re Apr 18 '17 at 19:42
  • the script might contain instructions about what to do if the $EUID is 0. /root is a pretty dumb place to install any executable. But I have seen enough crappy installation scripts to believe that it's possible... – Zanna Apr 18 '17 at 19:46
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You need to look into the idea.sh script and see where it installs what.

Then you can revert that installation manually.

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  • I read that file several times, but didn't find anything. Problem is, that when I sudo, it loads configuration file from somewhere in root, but I can't find it. The thing is what I want to do: Find that rooted configuration file, and delete it, so I could fresh sudo ./idea.sh and enter my all credentials again, like from fresh start. – ninjamb Aug 10 '15 at 17:10
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    You have already trusted idea.sh too much, so this will probably not do more system damage. First, type script idealog.log, then sudo bash -x ./idea.sh, then when it completes, exit. The file idealog.log will provide interesting reading. – waltinator Aug 10 '15 at 17:44