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How do I install STS on Ubuntu? I already downloaded the compressed STS tar.gz file from spring.io.

Martin Thoma
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Step 1: Download the latest Spring Tool Suite for Linux from STS official website: https://spring.io/tools

Step 2: Extract into any folder which you prefer. My extracted Spring Tool Suite locations is /home/harishshan/springsource

Step 3: Create the Menu icon for quick access

sudo vim /usr/share/applications/STS.desktop

Step 4: Enter the following content

[Desktop Entry]
Name=SpringSource Tool Suite
Comment=SpringSource Tool Suite
Exec=~/springsource/sts-3.4.0-RELEASE/STS
Icon=~/springsource/sts-3.4.0-RELEASE/icon.xpm
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Development;IDE;Java;

Step 5: Now you can check from Quick Menu by typing "Spring"

Note: Small additional update for Ubuntu 18.04 & STS 4+ use Absolute path instead of relative. Use Exec=/home/harishshan/springsource/sts-3.4.0-RELEASE/STS Icon=/home/harishshan/springsource/sts-3.4.0-RELEASE/icon.xpm dont'use Exec=~somedir/harishshan/springsource/sts-3.4.0-RELEASE/STS Icon=~somedir/springsource/sts-3.4.0-RELEASE/icon.xpm

Source : http://harishshan.blogspot.fr/2014/05/install-spring-tool-suite-on-ubuntu.html

KiriSakow
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Sangimed
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    +1; The STS should be about 379 MB and be called something like `spring-tool-suite-3.8.4.RELEASE-e4.6.3-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz` – Martin Thoma Jun 27 '17 at 14:26
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    Another update - the executable is now called SpringToolSuite4 and not STS so the Exec path will have to be `/home/harishshan/springsource/sts-4.7.0.RELEASE/SpringToolSuite4` This change would be applicable on STS 4+. – Abhijay Kumar Jul 18 '20 at 07:33
  • how do you make available for all users so you don't have to copy this large file into every user account? – JesseBoyd Jan 11 '22 at 00:35
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Extract tar.gz file wherever you want

(for 64 Bit)

sudo tar -xvf spring-tool-suite-3.7.0.RELEASE-e4.5-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz

(or for 32 Bit)

sudo tar -xvf spring-tool-suite-3.7.0.RELEASE-e4.5-linux-gtk.tar.gz

and you can start to use (/sts-bundle/sts-3.7.0.RELEASE/STS).

ryuichiro
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  • Note for 32 bit Ubuntu users - it looks like the last 32 bit tarball that's easily available on the STS site is for STS version 3.9.6. The 3.9.7 release download page ( https://spring.io/tools3/sts/all ) only has a 64 bit archive link. – charles ross Jan 13 '19 at 15:57
  • not working in 2020. The answer needs to be updated. – user2180794 Feb 18 '20 at 03:32
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  1. Download the STS installer package (*.tar.gz) file to your downloads directory. At the time of this writing, that is...

    spring-tool-suite-3.9.5.RELEASE-e4.8.0-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz

  2. Expand the archive...

    tar -xzf spring-tool-suite-3.9.5.RELEASE-e4.8.0-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz

  3. Move the STS files to a good place for them to live. I like installing applications that will be possibly shared by multiple users, to the /opt/... directory.

    sudo mv sts-bundle /opt/sts

  4. Stealing the rest of this from @Sangimed, because his answer was very good too.

    Create the Menu icon for quick access...

    sudo nano /usr/share/applications/STS.desktop

    Enter the following content

    [Desktop Entry]
Name=SpringSource Tool Suite
Comment=SpringSource Tool Suite
Exec=/opt/sts/sts-3.9.5.RELEASE/STS
Icon=/opt/sts/sts-3.9.5.RELEASE/icon.xpm
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Keywords=Java,Eclipse,Spring,IDE,Development
Categories=Development;IDE;Java;

Now you can just hit the "Windows" key on your keyboard and type "spring" to launch the application, like any other properly installed application on your Desktop.

Phillip H. Blanton
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  1. Extract the file
  2. Go to sts-bundle>sts-3.8.1.RELEASE and click on STS
  3. Start using
Elyor
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You can use wget to download the file. To find the download link, go on Spring’s main website, right click on the download link for the package->

Select “Open Link in New Tab” ->

Copy and paste the new tab’s url into your wget command.

For example this command downloads the tar file:

wget “download.springsource.com/release/STS/3.9.0.RELEASE/dist/e4.7/spring-tool-suite-3.9.0.RELEASE-e4.7.0-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz”

Unzips the tar file:

sudo tar -xvf spring-tool-suite-3.9.0.RELEASE-e4.7.0-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz
Gene
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The answer is pretty simple:

  1. cd ~ && mkdir STS
  2. cd ~/STS && tar -zxvf ~/Downloads/spring-*

Note: the last statement will look for all tar's with the naming 'spring-...' before running this, make sure that in Downloads folder there's only one sts tar archive.

Malakai
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Go to the STS download page at http://spring.io/tools/sts/all , choose linux and your architecture(x86-x64). Once the download is finished, go to the downloaded directory and extract the .zip file into a convenient directory of your choice. Open the extracted sts-bundle directory, right click STS then just click run.

Soner from The Ottoman Empire
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1.Download the tarball from the official website

2.Extract the tarball and run the STS file on Ubuntu

http://commandstech.com/how-to-install-stsspring-tool-suite-on-ubuntu-16-04-with-pictures/

  1. Then create a sample project in STS
Spandana r
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If you already have Eclipse installed do next:

  • Run Eclipse
  • Help -> Eclipse Marketplace...
  • Find -> Spring Tools 4 Click Install button. Enjoy.
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