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Table 1.1 IntelliJ IDEA system requirements for all supported operating systems. Should any of
this information change between versions, you can find the most up-to-date details on the Jet-
Brains web site.
Platform
System requirements
All platforms
256MB RAM minimum, 512MB RAM recommended
100MB hard disk space, plus at least 200MB for caches
Windows
Intel Pentium III/800MHz or higher (or compatible)
Microsoft Windows 2003/XP/2000/NT 4.0 SP6a
Linux
Intel Pentium III/800MHz or higher (or compatible)
Red Hat Linux Fedora/9.x/8.x/7.3 (Debian, Suse, Mandrake, Slackware, Gentoo, and
other distributions with JDK 1.4.2 are also supported)
GNOME or KDE desktop
Generic UNIX
Intel Pentium III/800MHz or higher (or compatible)
Stable JDK 1.4.2 version available on platform
Mac OS X
1.42 GHz G4, G5 recommended
Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) or MAX OS X 10.3 (Panther)
JDK 1.4.1 or JDK 1.4.2
IDEA supports the compiling, debugging, and running of your projects under
any version of the Java Development Kit ( JDK ). To develop under a different ver-
sion, you need to install that yourself, as described later in this chapter.
1.1.2
Installing IDEA
For Windows and UNIX users, the installer is a self-executing Java application.
Run it by double-clicking its icon and following the installation instructions. You
can go back to a previous step or cancel the installation at any time; nothing is
installed until the final step of the process. Mac users have it easy: Just drag the
IDEA icon from the distribution folder to your hard drive.
In IDEA version 5.0, the UNIX distribution is now a packed archive instead of a
self-executing file. To install the software, UNIX users need only download the
archive and follow the instructions of the INSTALL.TXT file it contains.
Some of the steps described in this section don't appear during installation of
IntelliJ IDEA 5.0, because some of the settings are stored in the user HOME by
default. Other steps may have different sets of self-descriptive options.
 
 
 
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