How to install IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2.6 Released on Ubuntu 17.10

   JetBrains’ IntelliJ IDEA is a Java integrated development environment (IDE) for developing computer software. It is developed by JetBrains (formerly known as IntelliJ), and is available as an Apache 2 Licensed community edition, and in a proprietary commercial edition. Both can be used for commercial development.

IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2.6 Changelog:

• fixed: NullPointerException in com.intellij.openapi.externalSystem.settings.AbstractExternalSystemSettings.setLinkedProjectsSetting s in offline inspections mode
• fixed: Changelog converted automatically to US-ASCII
• fixed: Code inspection hangs in the latest 2017.2.5 release
• fixed: Re-Emergence of issue: IDEA-155160. SQL Code Coloring Breaks...
• fixed: Data Source corrupted: 'The string 'null-1..-1' is not a valid sequence specification'
• fixed: IntelliJ crashes system when generating a database diagram
• Feature: Feature request: allow "generate classes from database schema" for plain-JDBC developers
• fixed: Command line diff between directories: can't show diff error for files
• fixed: Error on Refresh Gradle Project using Java 9
• fixed: application properties not set when starting Spring Boot service in IDEA
• fixed: Groovy stub generation silently fails if some other builder requests rebuild
• See announcement for details. 

Installation instructions: 
 
    We can add this PPA to Ubuntu Operating  Systems and install Flacon with few easy commands.

Open terminal and insert command line...

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install intellij-idea-community

 
Change intellij-idea-community to intellij-idea-ultimate in the last command to install the ultimate edition.


Option, remove IntelliJ IDEA:

$ sudo apt-get remove --autoremove intellij-idea-community intellij-idea-ultimate