So I am very, very new to Linux. I am also new-ish to coding. I'm currently learning Java and purchased a Samsung series 3 Chromebook for the sole purpose of practicing code (eventually moving to slick 3d).
I have JUST installed XFCE using crouton and have gotten Firefox using the Synaptic Package Manager, woohoo!
I would like to find out how/which JDK I need for this device and how to install Intellij IDEA. I've tried searching around for a little while now and feel a bit overwhelmed with all the information regarding this, not only new OS, but new architecture (ARM).
Basically my main goals are to be able to get the proper JDK and a Java IDE up and running. I have read that Intellij IDEA may or may not be available yet for the ARM processors in which case using Eclipse would be just as fine.
OpenJDK is available in Ubuntu, and the Oracle Java SE Development Kit can be downloaded from Oracle. For the latter, you would need the "hard float ABI" version.
http://www.webupd8.org/2013/12/oracle-java-ppa-updated-with-arm-support.html might be a more user-friendly way than downloading the Oracle environment yourself.
Eclipse exists in Ubuntu too.
A bit late but just did this myself. Very simple really: Go to https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download for the latest version of idea. While it's downloading go to the terminal and type
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk
Once Idea is downloaded and openjdk installed, extract the idea file somewhere.
mv ~/Downloads/idea-IU*.tar.gz ~
cd ~
tar xvf idea-IU*.tar.gz
To launch idea then just go to the extracted directory and run the idea.sh in the bin directory
cd idea-IU*/bin
./idea.sh
Should start up nicely
Update:
Saying it starts up nicely was not a lie. It just doesn't stay up long. Trying to see whats going wrong. Will update with findings.
OK, so you'll also need to do the following, open idea.sh and add -jamvm to the list of arguments used to run intellij,so change this line:
IDE_JVM_ARGS=""
To this:
IDE_JVM_ARGS="-jamvm"
ALSO, you'll need to install clang ( sudo apt-get install clang ) and copy and run ( bash <scriptname>.sh /path/to/idea/bin ) this guy's shell script : https://gist.github.com/pcarrier/7560053#file-fsnotifierto-sh
