Setting up winIDEA on a Native Linux Host
In this topic:
•Operating system customization
Introduction
By following this guide, you will be able to set up a native Linux host environment to run winIDEA provided as a tar.gz archive. The setup process involves installing necessary dependencies, configuring the Linux operating system, support for Wine, Java, Python, and ensuring that winIDEA can run efficiently with the required tools and libraries.
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The Wine package included in most Linux distributions is outdated. Always install the latest stable version from the WineHQ project |
Operating system customization
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Install the trte package to customize operating system. |
For detailed steps, refer to the Setup Native OS package manager.
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Download the portable winIDEA. |
Extract it into a working directory, then change into the extracted folder:
$ tar -zxvf winIDEA_x64_<version>.tar.gz |
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Run winIDEA. |
All commands below must be executed from working directory (inside subdirectory winIDEA) where the winIDEA_x64_<version>.tar.gz archive was extracted.
If you want to run winIDEA from outside the extracted directory, append its location to your PATH in ${HOME}/.profile:
export PATH=${PATH}:/path/to/extracted/archive/winIDEA |
a. Run winIDEA with basic environment:
$ ./winidea |
b. Run winIDEA with customized arguments:
$ ./winidea <optional args> |
c. Run winIDEA in headless mode:
$ xvfb-run ./winidea <optional args> |
