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I have Intellij IDEA 15 (Community) in Downloads folder. The file name is ideaIC-15.0.3.tar.gz. My operation system is Ubuntu 15.10 for developers. Can anyone help me install it? Thank you.

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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 ~/.IntelliJIdea15 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 ~/.IntelliJIdea15/idea.vmoptions (or idea64.vmoptions if using a 64-bit JDK), and set the -Xms and -Xms paramters. 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

    By default, IntelliJ IDEA stores all your settings under the ~/.IntelliJIdea15/config directory and uses ~/.IntelliJIdea15/system as a data cache. If you want to change these settings,

  5. Open a console and cd into ~/.IntelliJIdea15/

  6. 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

  7. 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

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