Installing IntelliJ IDEA

Go to https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download. Download the community edition for your platform. The ultimate edition offers more features, but we will not use them in this book.

The following are the steps to install IntelliJ IDEA:

  1. Run IntelliJ Idea.
  2. Select the Do not import settings option:

  1. Choose a UI theme. I personally prefer Dracula, since a dark background saves battery on a laptop and is more gentle on the eyes:

  1.  Create a desktop entry by checking the options given:

  1. In the Create Launcher Script ...

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