It's asking us if we're sure we want to open it, which we are, so I'll click on open. So now that this is in our applications folder I'm going to double click on this to open up IntelliJ. So I will open this up and it's asking us to drag this icon into our applications folder and a finder window has opened up automatically. I'm going to cancel this one, cause I've already downloaded it. So, we can click on download and then a download begins. The community version has everything we need and it's completely free. And we've got two options, We can either download the ultimate version of IntelliJ which is paid for, or we can download the community version. So, the first thing we're going to do is google IntelliJ Idea and here we can click on download. ide folder contains the configuration data of your Java project and src folder is for your Java codes.- Let's install IntelliJ for Mac and open up our project files. In the project structure, you will see two subdirectories.

Specify the project name, select Project location and click Finish.

In the New Project window, choose the Java as programming language and select the JDK version you want to use with the new project.

Click on: “Create New Project” (or select New Project from the File menu).

Create a New Java Project on Ubuntu 18.04

Java 11 is the latest version and click on this link to learn how to install and setup JDK 11 on Ubuntu 18.04, If you haven’t done it already. We Didn’t need Java to install IntelliJ on Ubuntu 18.04, but to to develop Java applications, you need to have Java development Kit. Once the process is complete, you can open the IntelliJ IDEA from the Ubuntu Application Menu.

Select the plugins which you want to install with Ubuntu IntelliJ IDEA (You can always customize these settings letter). Check the checkbox: “create a desktop entry for integration with system application menu”.Ĭheck the checkbox to create the launcher script, which will allow you to open files and projects from the Ubuntu command line (the idea command).

Install intellij