intellij-idea-community

.deb Packages of IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition for Ubuntu

The latest upstream version is 2017.2.5 which is included in the package version 2017.2.5.

Adding the ppa to Ubuntu

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mmk2410/intellij-idea
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install intellij-idea-community

Updating the package

To update the version follow these steps. Replace all instances of [year].[major].[minor] with the new version numbers (e.g., 2017.2.5++).

1. Fork the repo
2. Create your own feature branch

git checkout -b version-[year].[major].[minor]

3. Rename the following

mv intellij-idea-community_2017.2.5 intellij-idea-community_[year].[major].[minor]
mv intellij-idea-community_2017.2.5.orig.tar.gz intellij-idea-community_[year].[major].[minor].orig.tar.gz

4. Edit the README.md and update the version numbers

5. Go into the build files directory

cd intellij-idea-community_[year].[major].[minor]/debian

6. Edit the changelog file and prepend a new changelog entry. You can just copy an old one and update the values in it

7. Edit the preinst file and update the download url. Normally this is done by updating the version number

8. Go one directory back

cd ..

9. Run the following command to build the package for testing purposes

debuild -us -uc

10. Go another directory back

cd ..

11. Remove the old files

rm intellij-idea-community_2017.2.5-1*

12. Install the package to test it

sudo dpkg -i intellij-idea-community_[year].[major].[minor]_all.deb

13. If everything works, add yourself to the CONTRIBUTORS.txt

14. Commit your changes

git add -A
git commit -m "Version [year].[major].[minor]"

15. Push to the branch

git push origin version-[year].[major].[minor]

16. Create new pull request

Automatically do steps 2 to 12

Run ./update-new-version.sh 2017.2.5 [year].[major].[minor]

Setting up the build environment

Run sudo apt install devscripts debhelper.