While what KLHauser suggested will work, but if the vm is restarted in the cloud (which happens) your application will not automatically restart. Key on your keyboard and type 'spring' to launch the application, like any other properly installed application on your Desktop. Keywords=Java,Eclipse,Spring,IDE,Development Sudo nano /usr/share/applications/STS.desktop

Stealing the rest of this from because his answer was very good too. I like installing applications that will be possibly shared by multiple users, to the /opt/. Move the STS files to a good place for them to live. Small additional update for Ubuntu 18.04 & STS 4+ use AbsoluteĮxec=/home/harishshan/springsource/sts-3.4.0-RELEASE/STS Icon=/home/harishshan/springsource/sts-3.4.0-RELEASE/icon.xpmĮxec=~somedir/harishshan/springsource/sts-3.4.0-RELEASE/STS Icon=~somedir/springsource/sts-3.4.0-RELEASE/icon.xpmĭownload the STS installer package (*.tar.gz) file to your downloads directory. : Now you can check from Quick Menu by typing 'Spring' Icon=~/springsource/sts-3.4.0-RELEASE/icon.xpm Sudo vim /usr/share/applications/STS.desktopĮxec=~/springsource/sts-3.4.0-RELEASE/STS My extracted Spring Tool Suite locations is /home/harishshan/springsource : Extract into any folder which you prefer. : Download the latest Spring Tool Suite for Linux from STS official website: : To test if you have successfully installed the CLI you can run the following command: To check if you are using BASH or ZSH, run the command: Ln -s /path/to/your/extracted-spring-cli/spring-2.4.0/shell-completion/zsh/_spring /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/_spring Ln -s /path/to/your/extracted-spring-cli/spring-2.4.0/shell-completion/bash/spring /etc/bash_completion.d/spring To reload the environment variables you just added.Īre provided for BASH and ZSH with the extracted archive in Step-1.

You can check your JDK version using command:įor example, you can add below lines to yourĮxport SPRING_HOME=/path/to/your/extracted-spring-cli/spring-2.4.0

The downloaded zip file to any path of your choice.įile from extracted archive in Step-1). The Spring CLI distribution: you can find the latest version link here. You can read the docs for installation steps:

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