Arch Linux User Repository

That's fine. The other one does require login to a JetBrains account and has a bunch of extra trial-only plugins, but it works. Thanks for all the time you've put into these packages over the years.

I've created another PKGBUILD, etc., for the Apache-licensed EAP 7.

I'll delete this and keep the other one

I've created a working PKGBUILD (and other associated files) which builds the Apache-licensed EAP tag idea/2025.3-eap-5 at GitHub, based on the build source for the intellij-idea-community-edition 4:2025.2.3-1 official repo package.

build source

diff from official repo package intellij-idea-community-edition 4:2025.2.3-1 build source

It might not be exactly what you want, and it takes quite a while to build, mostly due to the 5+ gigs of downloads from the source at GitHub, but it works for me so far, and it does not conflict with the official repo package (and the two can run simultaneously even).

It also, just like the official repo package, works just fine with the jre-jetbrains AUR package when launched with the IDEA_JDK=/usr/lib/jvm/jre-jetbrains environment variable.

Separate Community Edition and Ultimate Edition versions seem to be going away as of 2025.3, per https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2025/07/intellij-idea-unified-distribution-plan/ :

With the 2025.3 release, IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition will no longer be distributed as a separate product. Instead, all users will download a single IntelliJ IDEA distribution: one installer and one update stream.

If you are currently using Community Edition, your IDE will automatically update to the unified distribution via the usual patch update process. You will get access to additional features at no cost and a more seamless experience. You will also be able to try Ultimate features with just one click.

The change is minimal for Ultimate users: the IDE will simply be called IntelliJ IDEA without the “Ultimate” suffix.

EDIT:

Their FAQ mentions more about open-source versions:

Can I still build an open-source version of IntelliJ IDEA?

The source code remains on GitHub, and we are fully committed to maintaining it. In addition, we will publish open-source builds to GitHub Releases and provide ready-to-use CI/CD pipelines powered by GitHub Actions, reinforcing our commitment to transparency and productive open-source collaboration.

The latest EAP version (2024.2) shows this message:

The IDE seems to be launched with a script launcher (bin/idea.sh). Please consider > switching to a native launcher (bin/idea) for better experience.

You might consider changing the Exec in the desktop launcher file to follow this recommendation, @artafinde.

added aarch64 support after jetbrains released builds for aarch64 on linux

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index e7e9101..766ea18 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@

 pkgname=intellij-idea-ce-eap
 _pkgname=idea-IC
-_buildver=223.7571.58
+_buildver=223.7571.123
 _veryear=2022
 _verrelease=2
 _verextra=3
@@ -15,10 +15,20 @@ url="http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/nextversion"
 license=('Apache2')
 depends=('java-environment' 'giflib' 'libxtst' 'libdbusmenu-glib')
 _archive="ideaIC-${_buildver}.tar.gz"
-source=("https://download.jetbrains.com/idea/${_archive}"
-        "intellij-idea-ce-eap.desktop")
-sha256sums=($(curl -s "https://download.jetbrains.com/idea/${_archive}.sha256" | cut -f1 -d" ")
-            '977f062d7db3a4c7bd50c24d2426e3226f7350c575f7cea6f5f50ea637bd1348')
+_archive_aarch64="ideaIC-${_buildver}-aarch64.tar.gz"
+# downloads aarch64 version if arch matches
+if [ "${CARCH}" == "aarch64" ]; then
+    source=("https://download.jetbrains.com/idea/${_archive_aarch64}"
+    "${pkgname}.desktop")
+    sha256sums=($(curl -s "https://download.jetbrains.com/idea/${_archive_aarch64}.sha256" | cut -f1 -d" ")
+    '977f062d7db3a4c7bd50c24d2426e3226f7350c575f7cea6f5f50ea637bd1348')
+else
+    source=("https://download.jetbrains.com/idea/${_archive}"
+    "${pkgname}.desktop")
+    sha256sums=($(curl -s "https://download.jetbrains.com/idea/${_archive}.sha256" | cut -f1 -d" ")
+    '977f062d7db3a4c7bd50c24d2426e3226f7350c575f7cea6f5f50ea637bd1348')
+fi
+
 package() {
     install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}"
     cp -r --no-preserve='ownership' "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}-${_buildver}/"* "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}"

grdgkjrpdihe: Slightly harder to maintain and so far I had no indication of someone using it - I'll try bring it back, wait for -3

why "no jbr" option has been removed

Sorry for the delay I was waiting to see if they will fix the JBR-3066 but since no real progress from Jetbrains I packaged with previous JBR.

Please report any issues while building.

Holidays period without access to the AUR key - I'll fix this when back to base circa 04/01/2020