IntelliJ IDEA

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
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Windows Installation Instructions

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1. Unpack the IntelliJ IDEA distribution file that you downloaded to
where you wish to install the program. We will refer to this destination
location as your {installation home} below.

2. [OPTIONAL] Add the "{installation home}/bin" to your PATH environmental

variable so that you may start IntelliJ IDEA from any directory.

3. [OPTIONAL] To adjust the value of JVM heap size, create

${user.home}/.IntelliJIdea2018.2/config/idea.vmoptions (or idea64.vmoptions
if using a 64-bit JDK), and set the -Xms and -Xmx parameters. To see how to
do this,
you can reference the vmoptions file under "{installation home}/bin" as a
model.

4. Open a console and cd into "{installation home}/bin" and type:

idea.bat

to start the application. As a side effect, this will initialize various

configuration files in the ${user.home}/.IntelliJIdea2018.2 directory.

[OPTIONAL] Changing location of "config" and "system" directory

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By default, IntelliJ IDEA stores all your settings under the $
{user.home}/.IntelliJIdea2018.2/config
directory and uses ${user.home}/.IntelliJIdea2018.2/system as a data cache.
If you want to change these settings,

1. Open a console and cd into ${user.home}/.IntelliJIdea2018.2/config

2. Create the file "idea.properties" and open it in an editor. Set the

idea.system.path and/or idea.config.path variables as desired, for
example:

idea.system.path=${user.home}/.IntelliJIdea2018.2/system
idea.config.path=${user.home}/.IntelliJIdea2018.2/config

3. Note that we recommend to store data cache ("system" directory) on a disk

with at least 1GB of free space.

[OPTIONAL] Associate "*.ipr" files (IDEA project files) with IntelliJ IDEA
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1. Open a console and cd into "{installation home}/bin"

2. If your installation directory is NOT "C:\Program Files\JetBrains\IntelliJ

IDEA 10.0",
edit file "ipr.reg" (you should replace all occurrences of
"C:\Program Files\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA 10.0")

3. From "{installation home}" type:

ipr.reg
 to add information about "*.ipr" files to registry.

Enjoy!

-IntelliJ IDEA Development Team