Intellij 8M1 on Ubuntu 8: Ultimate Pleasure

IntelliJ is my current favorite IDE. Ubuntu is my current favorite Linux flavors. Put 'em both together and waddya' get? My current favorite day on the job.

The stairway to heaven:

Install Java

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
java -version

Get IntelliJ for Linux

Download the tarIntellij 8 Milestone 1 (Diana).

Upack:

tar xfz idea-7.0.1.tar.gz ./usr/lib/

Update Paths

# path to Java
emacs ~/.bashrc &
/** ... */
export JDK_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/"

# PATH
sudo emacs /etc/environment &
/** ... */
PATH="[other stuff in path]:/usr/lib/idea-xxxx/bin"

#reload env
source /etc/environment

Rev 'er up!

./idea.sh &

Develop with pleasure on the OS of pleasure!

There are some less pleasurable moments, however. For me, the least pleasurable (and this is how 'bad' it has gotten so far) is the nasty Linux-flavor font used in the menus. Ick. You can change that, though, by changing the look and feel. Press Ctrl-`, select "Switch Look & Feel", and select something different than the default, like GTK+.

(Base on this tutorial.)