How to install JDK and Intellij IDEA on ARM/Samsun

Question

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.

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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.