Thursday, February 21, 2019

Install JetBrains Toolbox App on Linux, and also Android Studio and IntelliJ IDEA (Java IDE)

JetBrains Toolbox App is a lightweight cross-platform companion application for JetBrains' coding tools, to manage installed tools, download new ones and open recent projects.

System requirement to install Toolbox App for Linux:
64-bit x86, glibc 2.17 (Ubuntu 14.04 or newer). JetBrains Toolbox App is packaged in AppImage and requires FUSE to run.

To check the version of your glibc, it's a simple method, using ldd command in Terminal:
$ ldd --version

It will show something like this:
ldd (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1) 2.27

To install and set FUSE, follow the steps in AppImage Wiki.

For Ubuntu, enter the commands in Terminal:

$ sudo apt install fuse
$ sudo modprobe fuse
$ sudo groupadd fuse
$ user="$(whoami)"
$ sudo usermod -a -G fuse $user

Visit https://www.jetbrains.com/toolbox/app/ to download the, currently it's version 1.13.

This video show how to Install JetBrains Toolbox App on Linux Mint 19.1

Install Android 3.3.1 on Linux Mint 19.1 with JetBrains Toolbox, Hello World and convert Java to Kotlin.

IntelliJ IDEA (Java IDE) with JetBrains Toolbox.

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