Setting up winIDEA on a Native Linux Host
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The Wine package included in most Linux distributions is outdated.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 steps
1. Install the trte package to customize operating system.
For detailed steps, refer to the Native OS Package Manager.
2. Download the portable winIDEA.
Extract it into a working directory, then change into the extracted folder:
$ tar -zxvf winIDEA_x64_<version>.tar.gz |
3. 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> |
