The JetBrains Toolbox App is the recommended tool to install JetBrains products. This means that components relying on the embedded browser will not work, for example, the Markdown HTML preview and the interactive debugger console. Older Linux distributions (before Ubuntu 18.04 and CentOS 8) don't support the required JCEF version starting from IntelliJ IDEA version 2022.1. However, to develop Java applications, a standalone JDK is required. You do not need to install Java to run IntelliJ IDEA because JetBrains Runtime is bundled with the IDE (based on JRE 17). Latest 64-bit version of Windows, macOS, or Linux (for example, Debian, Ubuntu, or RHEL) IntelliJ IDEA is not available for the Linux distributions that do not include GLIBC 2.27 or later. Officially released 64-bit versions of the following:Īny Linux distribution that supports Gnome, KDE, or Unity DE. SSD drive with at least 5 GB of free space IntelliJ IDEA supports multithreading for different operations and processes making it faster the more CPU cores it can use.