IntelliJ GUI application with WSL

IntelliJ in WSLg

Download JetBrains toolbox. Get the latest link from here

wget https://download.jetbrains.com/toolbox/jetbrains-toolbox-1.28.1.15219.tar.gz

Extract

sudo tar -xzf jetbrains-toolbox-1.28.1.15219.tar.gz -C /opt

Run and if Error

/opt/jetbrains-toolbox-1.28.1.15219/jetbrains-toolbox

dlopen(): error loading libfuse.so.2

 

AppImages require FUSE to run.

You might still be able to extract the contents of this AppImage

if you run it with the --appimage-extract option.

See https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/FUSE

for more information

Fix

sudo apt install libfuse2

Run toolbox again

/opt/jetbrains-toolbox-1.28.0.15158/jetbrains-toolbox

if its not coming up

just install gedit like below

sudo apt update  // Do not ignore. Please run this first.
sudo apt install gedit -y

Close the termial window(not tab) and open again.

Run gedit like below

gedit

Now try to run toolbox again

Install IDEs you want.

Run IntelliJ from command line

idea

or

~/.local/share/JetBrains/Toolbox/scripts/idea

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