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How to set environment variables so they work in non-interactive bash shells?

I am running the amazonlinux:2 docker image directly from dockerhub and installing the corretto-17 JDK with the following command:
yum install -y git java-17-amazon-corretto-devel
Note: I am not using a custom Dockerfile, I do not control it and I can't change it.
When I then try and run my .gradlew task, it fails because there's no JAVA_HOME set.
So I do that by:
echo "export JAVA_HOME='/usr/lib/jvm/java-17-amazon-corretto.x86_64'" >> /root/.bashrc
If I manually connect a terminal to to the container, the .bashrc works fine and gradlew will run.
But when I run commands from outside the container via something like:
docker exec kopibuild /bin/bash -c "cd the-project-code && ./gradlew build"
The .bashrc is not loaded so JAVA_HOME is not set and gradlew fails.
My workaround is to add the interactive flag -i to the bash command and then it all works, but there are warnings in the logs about "cannot set terminal process group (-1): Inappropriate ioctl for device".
docker exec kopibuild /bin/bash -c "cd the-project-code && BASH_ENV=/root/.bashrc ./gradlew build"
But it didn't seem to do anything.
What's the right way to set environment variables for Amazon Linux so they will exist in non-interactive shell invocations?

After digging around on the Googles - I believe there is no standard Linux way to set an environment variable for non-interactive shells.
But there is a Docker way to answer the question. On the original docker create of the container from the amazonlinux:2 image, specify the environment variable via -e JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-17-amazon-corretto.x86_64. This stores the environment variable in the docker metadata for the container and it will be available in all execution contexts, including non-interactive shells invoked directly via docker exec (without having to specify it explicitly for every exec command).
As far as I know, this is the same as what the ENV command in a Dockerfile does.

running bazel remote executor test on separate machines

The remote worker guide of bazel (here) explains how to start the remote-worker locally and then run bazel against it.
I tried it and indeed that worked (with bugs that reported in GH)
Another attempt was to create run the remote worker on a virtual separate machine, by running it inside docker container and running bazel against it. But it failed in a different way - and I think this time I'm using it wrong.
Here's my docker file:
FROM openjdk:8
# install release bazel from apt
RUN echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://storage.googleapis.com/bazel-apt stable jdk1.8" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bazel.list
RUN curl https://bazel.build/bazel-release.pub.gpg | apt-key add -
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y zip bazel
# compile dev bazel from sources
RUN mkdir -p /usr/src/bazel
# "bazel" has the latest development code of bazel from github
COPY bazel /usr/src/bazel
WORKDIR /usr/src/bazel
RUN bazel build src/bazel
# compile remote_worker using latest development bazel
RUN bazel-bin/src/bazel build //src/tools/remote_worker
# prepare cache folder
RUN mkdir -p /tmp/test
# Run remote-worker
CMD ["bazel-bin/src/tools/remote_worker/remote_worker","--work_path=/tmp/test","--listen_port=3030"]
After building it I simply ran the docker binding the port to the localhost:
$ docker build -t bazel-worker .
$ docker run -p 3030:3030 bazel-worker
Then ran bazel java test to run using the remote worker:
(Can check out my test repo here)
$ bazel --host_jvm_args=-Dbazel.DigestFunction=SHA1 test \
--spawn_strategy=remote \
--remote_executor=localhost:3030 \
--remote_cache=localhost:3030 \
--strategy=Javac=remote \
--remote_local_fallback=false \
--remote_timeout=600 \
//src/main/java/com/example/...
But I got this weird error message:
____Loading package: src/main/java/com/example
____Loading package: #bazel_tools//tools/cpp
____Loading package: #local_jdk//
____Loading package: #local_config_xcode//
____Loading package: #local_config_cc//
____Loading complete. Analyzing...
____Loading package: tools/defaults
____Loading package: #bazel_tools//third_party/java/jdk/langtools
____Loading package: #junit//jar
____Found 1 test target...
____Building...
____[0 / 2] BazelWorkspaceStatusAction stable-status.txt
____[2 / 4] Creating source manifest for //src/main/java/com/example:my_test
____From Extracting interface #junit//jar:jar:
/tmp/test/build-80057300-ffd2-49ea-a20b-3f234d9963db/external/bazel_tools/tools/jdk/ijar/ijar: 1: /tmp/test/build-80057300-ffd2-49ea-a20b-3f234d9963db/external/bazel_tools/tools/jdk/ijar/ijar: �����0��!H__PAGEZEROx__TEXTpp__text__TEXT/��__stubs__TEXT0p�__stub_helper__TEXT���__gcc_except_tab__TEXT�: not found
/tmp/test/build-80057300-ffd2-49ea-a20b-3f234d9963db/external/bazel_tools/tools/jdk/ijar/ijar: 2: /tmp/test/build-80057300-ffd2-49ea-a20b-3f234d9963db/external/bazel_tools/tools/jdk/ijar/ijar: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")
ERROR: /private/var/tmp/_bazel_ors/719f891d5db9fd5e73ade25b0c847fd1/external/junit/jar/BUILD.bazel:2:1: output 'external/junit/jar/_ijar/jar/external/junit/jar/junit-4.12-ijar.jar' was not created.
ERROR: /private/var/tmp/_bazel_ors/719f891d5db9fd5e73ade25b0c847fd1/external/junit/jar/BUILD.bazel:2:1: not all outputs were created or valid.
____Building complete.
Target //src/main/java/com/example:my_test failed to build
Use --verbose_failures to see the command lines of failed build steps.
____Elapsed time: 13.614s, Critical Path: 0.21s
Am I doing anything wrong? Do I need to run it differently when running the remote worker on an actual (or virtual) remote machine (vs. just running it locally)?
Important to mention: my machine is mac osx sierra. , I believe that docker openjdk:8 is ubuntu based, I'm running locally bazel development version (sha 956810b6ee24289e457a4b8d0a84ff56eb32c264).

Running the remote worker on a different architecture / OS combination than Bazel itself isn't working yet. We still have a couple of places in Bazel where we inspect the local machine - they were added as temporary measures, but haven't been fixed yet.
Edit: It may work in some cases, especially for platform-independent code (e.g., Java or Scala).
If your build is test-heavy, you could try only running tests remotely with --test_strategy=remote; I'm not sure if the default Jvm configuration will work, though.
If you want to run the entire build remotely, then you need to tell Bazel what kind of machines / OS it's executing on. Right now, that'd require setting --host_cpu, and probably --crosstool_top / --host_crosstool_top to configure a C++ compiler for that platform.
Also, some combinations of platforms are more and some less likely to work. In particular, combining MacOS and Linux or different flavors of Linux are much more likely to work than Windows in any combination.

Permissions error running Java Timezone Updater JAR in Dockerfile

I have a fairly standard Java image with some dependencies added in that I'm writing this Dockerfile on top of. Here's where I'm having a problem in my Dockerfile:
RUN which java
RUN ["/usr/bin/java", "-jar", "tzupdater.jar", "-v", "-l"]
I thought that every Dockerfile command was run as root? But when I try to build from this Dockerfile, I'm running into this permissions issue which also happened in my local environment when I forgot to run this JAR as sudo:
$ docker build -t container-w-tz-update .
Uploading context 1.122 GB
Uploading context
Step 0 : FROM company/java-img-with-dependencies:1.0
---> 0101010101
...
Step 3 : RUN which java
---> Running in 0101010101
/usr/bin/java
---> 0101010101
Step 4 : RUN ["/usr/bin/java", "-jar", "tzupdater.jar", "-v", "-l"]
---> Running in 0101010101
java.vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
java.version: 1.6.0_45
tzupdater version 2.1.1-b01
Downloaded file to /tmp/tz.tmp/tzdata.tar.gz
Downloaded file to /tmp/tz.tmp/sha512hash
failed.
Cant rename {0} to {1}.
com.sun.tools.tzupdater.TzRuntimeException: com.sun.tools.tzupdater.TzRuntimeException: Cant rename {0} to {1}.
Caused by: com.sun.tools.tzupdater.TzRuntimeException: Cant rename {0} to {1}.
at com.sun.tools.tzupdater.TimezoneUpdater.update(TimezoneUpdater.java:301)
at com.sun.tools.tzupdater.TimezoneUpdater.run(TimezoneUpdater.java:249)
at com.sun.tools.tzupdater.TimezoneUpdater.main(TimezoneUpdater.java:643)
2017/04/05 22:20:23 The command [/usr/bin/java -jar tzupdater.jar -v -l] returned a non-zero code: 1
I was able to run this utility as sudo on my local with the exact same version of Java with no issues. When I tried to run it locally without sudo, I received the same error. Thoughts?

(This is more like a comment but the message length is beyond the comment limit, so I leave it here as an answer so that other people can maybe give more useful info based on what I've done.)
Seems it's really an unresolved issue, I reproduced your problem by image enoniccloud/java6 running with root user, I also tried docker run -it --privileged ... to run it manually but it does not help. I also tried jdk8 with base image alpine:3.3 but also failed with:
Downloaded file to /tmp/tz.tmp/sha512hash
Renaming /opt/jdk1.8.0_91/jre/lib/tzdb.dat to /opt/jdk1.8.0_91/jre/lib/tzdb.dat.tzdata2016a failed.
Cant rename {0} to {1}.
Validating for : tzdata2017b
Validation complete
JRE updated to version : tzdata2017b
I searched and the only info I found is as follows:
An open issue: https://github.com/docker/hub-feedback/issues/896
Related but not the same: https://forums.docker.com/t/update-docker-container-jre-to-set-timezone-correctly/24426
Before you find the root cause for this issue, I think an alternative way to build your image could be:
Download a JDK tarball for your platform
Untar it, setup JAVA_HOME and PATH, run java -jar tzupdater.jar -v -l on your host
Build your base image based on this updated JDK, ADD to image and setup environment variable like JAVA_HOME and PATH
Hope this could be helpful to you :-)

docker build will complete RUN steps as the last USER set in the Dockerfile.
To reset:
RUN whoami
USER root
RUN ["/usr/bin/java", "-jar", "tzupdater.jar", "-v", "-l"]
USER "whatever whoami reported"

I got a workaround for that. Adding some mv commands (that have no real effect) made it work:
FROM openjdk:7u211-jdk-alpine3.9
ADD tzupdater.jar tzupdater.jar
RUN mv /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7-openjdk/jre/lib/zi /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7-openjdk/jre/lib/zi.tzdata2018g && \
mv /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7-openjdk/jre/lib/zi.tzdata2018g /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7-openjdk/jre/lib/zi && \
java -jar tzupdater.jar -v -l https://.../tzdata-latest.tar.gz
I have no idea why it works, I got it by trial and error.
Notice the two mv commands do like mv a b && mv b a, so nothing really changes.
The names of the files (dirs, actually) used in the mv are the ones it outputs when it errors (before the workaround), so change it accordingly.

Installing and using Gradle in a docker image/container

I am getting this strange error at the end of the process of creating a docker image from a Dockerfile:
/bin/sh: 1: gradle: not found
INFO[0003] The command [/bin/sh -c gradle test jar] returned a non-zero code: 127
The relevant part of the Dockerfile:
FROM debian:jessie
[...]
RUN curl -L https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.4-bin.zip -o gradle-2.4-bin.zip
RUN apt-get install -y unzip
RUN unzip gradle-2.4-bin.zip
RUN echo 'export GRADLE_HOME=/app/gradle-2.4' >> $HOME/.bashrc
RUN echo 'export PATH=$PATH:$GRADLE_HOME/bin' >> $HOME/.bashrc
RUN /bin/bash -c "source $HOME/.bashrc"
RUN gradle test jar
[...]
The command I am using is: docker build -t java_i .
The strange thing is that if:
I run a container from the previous image commenting out RUN gradle test jar (command: docker run -d -p 9093:8080 -p 9094:8081 --name java_c -i -t java_i),
then I log into that container (command: docker exec -it java_c bash),
then I manually check the gradle environment variables finding them,
then I manually run that commented out command from within the running container (gradle test jar):
I eventually get the expected output (the compiled java code in the build folder).
I am using Docker version 1.6.2

I solved the problem using the ENV docker instructions (link to the documentation).
ENV GRADLE_HOME=/app/gradle-2.4
ENV PATH=$PATH:$GRADLE_HOME/bin

This command /bin/bash -c "source $HOME/.bashrc" means that you create a new non-interactive process and run a command in it to set environment variables there. Which does not affect the parent process. As soon as variables are set, process exits. You can check this by running something like this:
RUN /bin/bash -c "source $HOME/.bashrc; env"
RUN env
What should be working is this option:
RUN source ~/.bashrc
And the reason why it works when you log in, is because the new process reads already updated ~/.bashrc.

I was trying to install same version with JDK 11.0.7 but gradle-2.4 does not work. and got below error
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
Could not determine java version from '11.0.7'.
* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
I install later version to fix the above issue after installation.
Posting as an answer might help someone else.
FROM openjdk:11.0.7-jdk
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y unzip
WORKDIR /gradle
RUN curl -L https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.5.1-bin.zip -o gradle-6.5.1-bin.zip
RUN unzip gradle-6.5.1-bin.zip
ENV GRADLE_HOME=/gradle/gradle-6.5.1
ENV PATH=$PATH:$GRADLE_HOME/bin
RUN gradle --version

You can use multi-stage builds and the Gradle Docker image (no need to install Gradle...) to build the application then use the result in the runtime container:
# Build
FROM gradle AS build
WORKDIR /appbuild
COPY . /appbuild
RUN gradle --version
# here goes your build code
Once the Gradle build is done, switch to the runtime container:
# Runtime
FROM openjdk:8-jre-alpine
# more stuff here...
COPY --from=0 appbuild/<somepath>/some.jar application.jar
# more stuff here...
The COPY command copies the build artifacts from the build phase to the runtime container (in this case a jar file).

How to install Intellij IDEA on Ubuntu?

I'm new to Ubuntu and Linux in general. I want to code in Java on my computer, but I'm having problems installing IntelliJ IDEA on Ubuntu. I have downloaded and extracted the file and for some reason renamed the folder to idea. I tried moving the folder to /usr/share/applications or something but I didn't have permission. I used sudo -i in terminal to gain permission but didn't manage to get out of root folder. Can anyone help me with a step by step way to move the folder, create a shortcut in the search bar or whatever it's called and install it properly?

Note: This answer covers the installation of IntelliJ IDEA. For an extended script, that covers more JetBrains IDEs, as well as help for font rendering issues, please see this link provided by brendan.
Furthermore, a manual Desktop Entry creation is optional, as newer versions of IntelliJ offer to create it on first startup.
I have my intellij int /opt folder. So what I do is:
Download Intellij
Extract intellij to /opt-folder: sudo tar -xvf <intellij.tar> -C /opt/ (the -C option extracts the tar to the folder /opt/)
Create a Desktop Entry File called idea.desktop (see example file below) and store it anywhere you want (let's assume in your home directory)
Move the idea.desktop from your home directory to /usr/share/applications: sudo mv ~/idea.desktop /usr/share/applications/
Now (in a lot) Ubuntu versions you can start the application after the GUI is restarted. If you don't know how to do that, you can restart your PC..
idea.desktop (this is for community edition version 14.1.2, you have to change the paths in Exec= and Icon= lines if the path is different for you):
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=IntelliJ IDEA
Comment=IntelliJ IDEA
Exec=/opt/ideaIC-14.1.2/bin/idea.sh
Icon=/opt/ideaIC-14.1.2/bin/idea.png
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=true
Type=Application
Edit
I also found a shell script that does this for you, here. The given script in the link installs Oracle Java 7 for you and gives you the choice between Community and Ultimate Edition. It then automatically downloads the newest version for you, extracts it and creates a desktop entry.
I have modified the scripts to fulfill my needs. It does not install java 8 and it does not ask you for the version you want to install (but the version is kept in a variable to easily change that). You can also update Intellij with it. But then you have to (so far) manually remove the old folder! This is what i got:
Edit2
Here is the new version of the script. As mentioned in the comments, breandan has updated the script to be more stable (the jetbrains website changed its behavior). Thanks for the update, breandan.
#!/bin/sh
echo "Installing IntelliJ IDEA..."
# We need root to install
[ $(id -u) != "0" ] && exec sudo "$0" "$#"
# Attempt to install a JDK
# apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk
# add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java && apt-get update && apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
# Prompt for edition
#while true; do
# read -p "Enter 'U' for Ultimate or 'C' for Community: " ed
# case $ed in
# [Uu]* ) ed=U; break;;
# [Cc]* ) ed=C; break;;
# esac
#done
ed=C
# Fetch the most recent version
VERSION=$(wget "https://www.jetbrains.com/intellij-repository/releases" -qO- | grep -P -o -m 1 "(?<=https://www.jetbrains.com/intellij-repository/releases/com/jetbrains/intellij/idea/BUILD/)[^/]+(?=/)")
# Prepend base URL for download
URL="https://download.jetbrains.com/idea/ideaI$ed-$VERSION.tar.gz"
echo $URL
# Truncate filename
FILE=$(basename ${URL})
# Set download directory
DEST=~/Downloads/$FILE
echo "Downloading idea-I$ed-$VERSION to $DEST..."
# Download binary
wget -cO ${DEST} ${URL} --read-timeout=5 --tries=0
echo "Download complete!"
# Set directory name
DIR="/opt/idea-I$ed-$VERSION"
echo "Installing to $DIR"
# Untar file
if mkdir ${DIR}; then
tar -xzf ${DEST} -C ${DIR} --strip-components=1
fi
# Grab executable folder
BIN="$DIR/bin"
# Add permissions to install directory
chmod -R +rwx ${DIR}
# Set desktop shortcut path
DESK=/usr/share/applications/IDEA.desktop
# Add desktop shortcut
echo -e "[Desktop Entry]\nEncoding=UTF-8\nName=IntelliJ IDEA\nComment=IntelliJ IDEA\nExec=${BIN}/idea.sh\nIcon=${BIN}/idea.png\nTerminal=false\nStartupNotify=true\nType=Application" -e > ${DESK}
# Create symlink entry
ln -s ${BIN}/idea.sh /usr/local/bin/idea
echo "Done."
Old Version
#!/bin/sh
echo "Installing IntelliJ IDEA..."
# We need root to install
[ $(id -u) != "0" ] && exec sudo "$0" "$#"
# define version (ultimate. change to 'C' for Community)
ed='U'
# Fetch the most recent community edition URL
URL=$(wget "https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/download_thanks.jsp?edition=I${ed}&os=linux" -qO- | grep -o -m 1 "https://download.jetbrains.com/idea/.*gz")
echo "URL: ${URL}"
echo "basename(url): $(basename ${URL})"
# Truncate filename
FILE=$(basename ${URL})
echo "File: ${FILE}"
# Download binary
wget -cO /tmp/${FILE} ${URL} --read-timeout=5 --tries=0
# Set directory name
DIR="${FILE%\.tar\.gz}"
# Untar file
if mkdir /opt/${DIR}; then
tar -xvzf /tmp/${FILE} -C /opt/${DIR} --strip-components=1
fi
# Grab executable folder
BIN="/opt/$DIR/bin"
# Add permissions to install directory
chmod 755 ${BIN}/idea.sh
# Set desktop shortcut path
DESK=/usr/share/applications/IDEA.desktop
# Add desktop shortcut
echo -e "[Desktop Entry]\nEncoding=UTF-8\nName=IntelliJ IDEA\nComment=IntelliJ IDEA\nExec=${BIN}/idea.sh\nIcon=${BIN}/idea.png\nTerminal=false\nStartupNotify=true\nType=Application" > ${DESK}
echo "Done."

You can also try my ubuntu repository: https://launchpad.net/~mmk2410/+archive/ubuntu/intellij-idea
To use it just run the following commands:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mmk2410/intellij-idea
sudo apt-get update
The community edition can then installed with
sudo apt-get install intellij-idea-community
and the ultimate edition with
sudo apt-get install intellij-idea-ultimate

JetBrains has a new application called the Toolbox App which quickly and easily installs any JetBrains software you want, assuming you have the license. It also manages your login once to apply across all JetBrains software, a very useful feature.
To use it, download the tar.gz file here, then extract it and run the included executable jetbrains-toolbox. Then sign in, and press install next to IntelliJ IDEA:
If you want to move the executable to /usr/bin/ feel free, however it works fine out of the box wherever you extract it to.
This will also make the appropriate desktop entries upon install.

Since Ubuntu 18.04 installing Intellij IDEA is easy! You just need to search "IDEA" in Software Center. Also you're able to choose a branch to install (I use EAP).
For earlier versions:
According to this (snap) and this (umake) articles the most comfortable ways are:
to use snap-packages (since versions IDEA 2017.3 & Ubuntu 14.04):
install snapd system. Since Ubuntu 16.04 you already have it.
install IDEA snap-package or even EAP build
to use ubuntu-make
(for Ubuntu versions earlier than 16.04 use apt-get command instead apt):
Add PPA ubuntu-desktop/ubuntu-make (if you install ubuntu-make from standard repo you'll see only a few IDE's):
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-desktop/ubuntu-make
Install ubuntu-make:
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install ubuntu-make
install preffered ide (IDEA, for this question):
$ umake ide idea
or even ultimate version if you need:
$ umake ide idea-ultimate
I upgrade Intellij IDEA via reinstalling it:
$ umake -r ide idea-ultimate
$ umake ide idea-ultimate

TL;DR:
Download IntelliJ IDEA from here.
cd Downloads
extract the downloaded file: sudo tar xf ideaIC-2017.2.5.tar.gz -C /opt/
Switch to the bin directory: cd /opt/idea-IC-172.4343.14/bin
Run idea.sh from the bin subdirectory.

Since Ubuntu 16.04 includes snapd by default.
So, the easiest way to install the stable version is
IntelliJ IDEA Community:
$ sudo snap install intellij-idea-community --classic
IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate:
$ sudo snap install intellij-idea-ultimate --classic
For the latest version use channel --edge
$ sudo snap install intellij-idea-community --classic --edge
Here is the list of all channels https://snapcraft.io/intellij-idea-ultimate (drop down 'All versions').
options
--classic
The --classic option is required because the IntelliJ IDEA snap requires full access to the system, like a traditionally packaged application.
[https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/install-and-set-up-product.html#install-on-linux-with-snaps]
--edge
--edge Install from the edge channel
[http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/snap.1.html]
Note: Snap, also work a few major distributions: Arch, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Linux Mint,...

Recent IntelliJ versions allows automatic creation of desktop entry. See this gist
Launch from commandline. If launching for the first time, setup will ask about creating a desktop launcher icon; say yes. Or else after launching (ie. from the commandline) any time, use the IDEA menu Configure > Create Desktop Entry . That should create /usr/share/applications/intellij-idea-community.desktop
Trigger the Ubuntu desktop search (ie. Windows key), find the Intellij IDEA you used to create the desktop entry.
Drag the icon it's showing into the Ubuntu Launcher.

In a simple manner you can also try to just run a pre-packaged docker with intellij, I found the good job of #dlsniper : https://hub.docker.com/r/dlsniper/docker-intellij/
you just need to have docker installed and to run :
docker run -tdi \
--net="host" \
--privileged=true \
-e DISPLAY=${DISPLAY} \
-v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix \
-v ${HOME}/.IdeaIC2016.1_docker:/home/developer/.IdeaIC2016.1 \
-v ${GOPATH}:/home/developer/go \
dlsniper/docker-intellij

Standalone installation
Download the tarball.tar.gz.
Extract the tarball to a directory that supports file execution.
For example, to extract it to the recommended /opt directory, run the following command:
sudo tar -xzf ideaIC-2020.3.tar.gz -C /opt
Go to /opt folder and open intellij folder
Go to /bin folder and execute the command sh idea.sh
Now the application opened and create the desktop shortcut if you need

I find and follow this youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbW-doAiAvI
Basically, download the tar.gz package, extract into /opt/, and then run the "idea.sh" under bin folder (i.e. /opt/idea-IC-163.7743.44/bin/idea.sh)
Enjoy

I needed to install various JetBrains tools on a number of machines from CLI, so I wrote a tiny tool to help with that. It also uses cleaner APIs from JB making it hopefully more stable, and works for various JB tools.
Feel free to try it: https://github.com/MarcinZukowski/jetbrains-installer

try simple way to install intellij idea
Install IntelliJ on Ubuntu using Ubuntu Make
You need to install Ubuntu Make first. If you are using Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04 or a higher version, you can install Ubuntu Make using the command below:
sudo apt install ubuntu-make
Once you have Ubuntu Make installed, you can use the command below to install IntelliJ IDEA Community edition:
umake ide idea
To install the IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate edition, use the command below:
umake ide idea-ultimate
To remove IntelliJ IDEA installed via Ubuntu Make, use the command below for your respective versions:
umake -r ide idea
umake -r ide idea-ultimate
you may visit for more option.
https://itsfoss.com/install-intellij-ubuntu-linux/