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@uwolfer Request for joint maintenance

True. Although I also don't want another JRE somewhere on my system that might get picked by something by mistake, so deleting it feels slightly safer. :-)

You don't have to remove the JetBrains runtime, just change it to whatever you prefer.

BTW, I've just tried the current version without the JBR (basically I just removed the mv "$srcdir"/jbr "$pkgdir"/opt/$pkgbase line from the package function in PKGBUILD) and the IDE started fine, just as previous versions.

So for me, including the JBR: - made the package over 400 MB larger, - messed up the font configuration -- all fonts (both in the UI and the editor) were about twice or three times larger than before. Although I'm sure I'd be able to reconfigure this to usable sizes if I wanted to.

Just FYI, I've never had intellij-idea-ultimate-edition-jre installed and I've always been able to start the IDE. I've been using the following two-line script to launch it but I don't actually remember if it was even necessary:

export PATH=/usr/lib/jvm/java-21-openjdk/bin/:$PATH /opt/intellij-idea-ultimate-edition/bin/idea.sh

Updated to 2024.3.2 and merged jbr into the base package as per @pht's comment. When updating, you'll see a conflict with intellij-idea-ultimate-edition-jre and pacman will ask you to remove it. Say yes. It's a one-time thing.

Hi, it seems the -jre package is not optional. The file product-info.json contains javaExecutablePath that points to the jbr directory and the IDE will not launch without it. If you figure a way to make it work with standard java runtime, please let me know, otherwise I suggest to make it part of the base package (in line with for example pycharm-professional). Thank you and have a great new year.

@munir0b0t all done, thanks!

Jetbrains now has an aarch64 build for this separate from the x86_64 build. I patched the PKGBUILD to use that since the x86_64 one did not work at all for me. It also bumps the version. Is it possible to include this patch in the next update?

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index cfe3c14..77b4078 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@

 pkgbase=intellij-idea-ultimate-edition
 pkgname=(intellij-idea-ultimate-edition intellij-idea-ultimate-edition-jre)
-pkgver=2024.2.3
+pkgver=2024.2.4
 pkgrel=1
-_buildver=242.23339.11
+_buildver=242.23726.103
 jbr_ver=21.0.4
 jbr_build=aarch64-b598
 jbr_minor=4
@@ -15,13 +15,15 @@ pkgdesc="An intelligent IDE for Java, Groovy and other programming languages wit
 url="https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/"
 license=('custom:commercial')
 options=(!strip)
-source=("https://download.jetbrains.com/idea/ideaIU-$pkgver.tar.gz"
-        "jetbrains-idea.desktop")
-source_aarch64=("https://cache-redirector.jetbrains.com/intellij-jbr/jbr-$jbr_ver-linux-$jbr_build.$jbr_minor.tar.gz"
+source=("jetbrains-idea.desktop")
+source_x86_64=("https://download.jetbrains.com/idea/ideaIU-$pkgver.tar.gz")
+source_aarch64=("https://download.jetbrains.com/idea/ideaIU-$pkgver-aarch64.tar.gz"
+                "https://cache-redirector.jetbrains.com/intellij-jbr/jbr-$jbr_ver-linux-$jbr_build.$jbr_minor.tar.gz"
                 "https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/raw/master/bin/linux/aarch64/fsnotifier")
-sha256sums=('579021f82d31dceb0dd8581fe5c12d7481e52c24a10688898ed00af1a0295eb3'
-            '83af2ba8f9f14275a6684e79d6d4bd9b48cd852c047dacfc81324588fa2ff92b')
-sha256sums_aarch64=('22b30ca460ad6c19b47b299fdb0c34424c48e917fb372c6e39e6904bf105b7a9'
+sha256sums=('83af2ba8f9f14275a6684e79d6d4bd9b48cd852c047dacfc81324588fa2ff92b')
+sha256sums_x86_64=('579021f82d31dceb0dd8581fe5c12d7481e52c24a10688898ed00af1a0295eb3')
+sha256sums_aarch64=('902494f3f7857c92019feff6a97d3001f5615d0c6844920218f5bf2625397a92'
+                    '22b30ca460ad6c19b47b299fdb0c34424c48e917fb372c6e39e6904bf105b7a9'
                     'eb3c61973d34f051dcd3a9ae628a6ee37cd2b24a1394673bb28421a6f39dae29')

 prepare() {

To fix error:
- Start with .sh as mentioned by @blastah
- Open menu: Choose Boot Runtime for the IDE and select the recent runtime Jetbrains.
- Close IDE and open by shortcut