Fully hand-held tutorial on setting up the Java environment to a usable state as quickly as possible. Only knowledge of using the terminal is expected. This tutorial will be completely self-contained (excluding links to downloads).

For more detailed tutorials, see General Development Environment Setup Guide

Ubuntu

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Java

Open a terminal and run

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• Download the latest Gradle 7 distribution (7.4.2 as of writing).
  • Choose the "complete" version.
  • Remember where you downloaded it.

• Unpack Gradle (the following are excerpted from the gradle website)

  • Open a terminal

  • cd into the directory where you downloaded Gradle. Then

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  Unzip the distribution zip file in the directory of your choosing, e.g.: Code Block $ sudo mkdir /opt/gradle $ sudo unzip -d /opt/gradle gradle-7.4.2-all.zip

• Add to path

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  $ echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/opt/gradle/gradle-7.4.2/bin' >> ~/.bashrc

• Verify installation

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  Open a console (or a Windows command prompt) and run gradle -v to run gradle and display the version, e.g.: Code Block $ gradle -v ------------------------------------------------------------ Gradle 7.4.2 ------------------------------------------------------------

• Configure for IHMC software
  
  • excerpt from Gradle#Installation
  • create Create a gradle.properties file in your user Home directory, ~/.gradle/gradle.properties

  • Copy/paste below into the file

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    org.gradle.java.home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-17-openjdk-amd64 org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx4g

IDE

Choose your favorite IDE. I like intellij because it was the first IDE I arbitrarily chose to useThis guide currently only contains instructions for IntelliJ. We are working on Eclipse.

Eclipse

full Full guide: Eclipse IDE

Intellij

full Full guide: IntelliJ IDEA

• Download IntelliJ Community. 
  • https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/#section=linux
  • Open a terminal and cd into the folder where you downloaded the tar file

  • Extract the file and move it to /opt/ (reference excerpt)

    Code Block$ tar -xzf ideaIC-2021.3.2.tar.gz $ sudo mv idea-IC-213.6777.52/ /opt/. $ ln -s /opt/idea-IC-213.6777.52/ /opt/idea $ sudo ln -s /opt/idea/bin/idea.sh /usr/local/bin/idea

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  • Intellij is now installed and runnable from the command line 

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    $ idea

  • To create a desktop entry, open IntelliJ once and select Tools > Create Desktop Entry

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• Now you will need to configure IntelliJ to the Java environment you installed.
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• Download the latest Gradle 7 distribution (7.4.2 as of writing).
  • Choose the complete version.
  • Remember where you downloaded it.

• Unpack Gradle (the following are excerpted from the gradle website)

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  Create a new directory C:\Gradle with File Explorer. Open a second File Explorer window and go to the directory where the Gradle distribution was downloaded. Double-click the ZIP archive to expose the content. Drag the content folder gradle-7.4.2 to your newly created C:\Gradle folder.

• Add to path

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  In File Explorer right-click on the This PC (or Computer) icon, then click Properties -> Advanced System Settings -> Environmental Variables. Under System Variables select Path, then click Edit. Add an entry for C:\Gradle\gradle-7.4.2\bin. Click OK to save.

• Verify installation

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  Open a console (or a Windows command prompt) and run gradle -v to run gradle and display the version, e.g.: Code Block $ gradle -v ------------------------------------------------------------ Gradle 7.4.2 ------------------------------------------------------------

• Configure for IHMC software
  • excerpt from Gradle#Installation
  • create gradle.properties file in C:/Users/<user>/.gradle/gradle.properties
  • Copy/paste

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    org.gradle.java.home=C:/Program Files/Java/jdk-17.0.3.1 org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx4g

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