How to upgrade Intellij to 2017 on Linux?

Question

I want to update Intellij from 2016.3 to 2017.1. This is a major update, so it can’t be done just by clicking “Update”, I need to download a brand new tar.gz. The problem is that I do not want to do a new installation, because I have some plugins and configuration that I would probably not lose. How can i do this?

Answer 1

Install, as usual, for the new version (unzip it to a new empty directory, then run through bin/idea.sh), it will offer to import settings from the previous version at the first start.

To automate updates, you can use the JetBrains Toolbox app .