How to Install IntelliJ IDEA on Ubuntu

Linux
Some years ago, Eclipse was probably the king of the IDEs of Java development. But, in the last times,
IntelliJ IDEA, from
JetBrains (developers of WebStorm, PhpStorm or TeamCity, among many other IDEs and software
engineering tools), has
become very popular, being considered by many developers the best Java IDE nowadays. This tutorial will
show how to install
it on Linux.
For this tutorial, Linux Mint 18 (an Ubuntu based Linux distribution) and IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2.5 have been
used.
2.1 Download
We can download IntelliJ IDEA from the official JetBrains site. As you can see, JetBrains offers two editions:
Community
Edition, free and open source (GitHub repository); and Ultimate Edition, proprietary and non-free (check
prices).
In this tutorial, we will use the Community Edition. You can follow the direct download link.
After the download, we should verify the file checksum, to check that the download has been made correctly
and that the file is
not corrupted. In this case, for the 2016.2.5 version, the SHA-256 checksum is the following:
1bccc6689c5a140cc8e3b6496a07c7c7c2d2b403034aaff98ace0c9badd63734
(Got from IntelliJ IDEA).
For checking the checksum of the file we just have downloaded, we have to open the terminal, navigate to the
directory of the
download, and execute the sha256sum command:
cd path/to/download
sha256sum ideaIC-2016.2.5.tar.gz
In this case, we got the same checksum