Installs IntelliJ from tar.gz file on Ubuntu

install-idea.sh

#!/bin/bash

cd ~

default_download_dir=$(cat $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs | grep XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR= | awk -F '=' '{print $2}' | tr -d '"')
echo "Default download dir is: ${default_download_dir}"
download_dir=${1:-$default_download_dir}
download_dir=$(eval echo $download_dir) # Expand environment variables

echo "Searching for the latest idea*.tar.gz in download dir: ${download_dir}"
idea_file=$(ls -1 --sort=time ${download_dir}/ideaIU-*.tar.gz | head -n 1)
idea_filename=$(basename ${idea_file})
echo "Found: ${idea_file}"
echo "Filename: ${idea_filename}"

echo "Copy archive to ~"
cp ${idea_file} ~

echo "Unpack archive"
tar -xzf ${idea_filename}
new_folder=$(ls -1 -d --sort=time idea-I*/ | head -n 1)
echo "Archive unpacked to: ${new_folder}"

echo "Remove archive"
rm ${idea_filename}

echo "Create ~/idea symlink to ${new_folder}"
rm -f idea # Remove any old symlink
ln -s ${new_folder} idea
new_folder_full_path=$(readlink -f idea)

echo "Create desktop entry"
cat <<EOF > ~/.local/share/applications/jetbrains-idea.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=IntelliJ IDEA
Icon=${new_folder_full_path}/bin/idea.png
Exec="${new_folder_full_path}/bin/idea.sh" %f
Comment=Develop with pleasure!
Categories=Development;IDE;
Terminal=false
StartupWMClass=jetbrains-idea
EOF

echo "New IntelliJ installed in ${new_folder} with a symlink '~/idea' "
echo "Start IntelliJ using: '~/idea/bin/idea.sh &'"
echo "...or just click the updated launchbar button!"

Wrote this for myself. Got tired of manually "installing" IntelliJ.