How to setup SDK in IntelliJ IDEA?

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I am not finding any way to setup the SDK in IntelliJ IDEA. Not finding any path to setup the SDK in ubuntu 16.04 LTS for IntelliJ IDEA.

I am working in this IDE for working on mongodb. But can't proceed because of this problem.

I add SDKs in global settings and choose the one I want in project settings. Both are on the top menu bar. — duffymo, Apr 27 '17 at 15:27
Refer [to help](https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/2017.1/working-with-sdks.html?search=jsdk#sdk_when_creating_project). If you don't have JDK installed, [get one here](http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html). — CrazyCoder, Apr 27 '17 at 15:35

JUAN CALVOPINA M · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-27T23:48:59.090

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To find the path where java is installed on ubuntu, you can run the following command from terminal:

$ whereis java

You may get something like this:

java: /usr/bin/java /etc/java /usr/share/java /usr/lib/jvm

Which means that the java resides at one of the above paths as for example /usr/bin/java

So, that directory should designate in IntelliJ. You can configure in the Project Structure, press Ctrl + Alt + Shift + S, choose Platform Settings -> SDKs, click on green button (+), select the home directory for JDK.

edited Apr 27 '19 at 23:48

answered Apr 28 '17 at 15:25

JUAN CALVOPINA M

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I am not able to find the same directory of java in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, in windows your answer is helpful but not finding the same dir in Ubuntu. – Soumen Pasari Apr 29 '17 at 18:45
sorry by the mistake, I improved the answer, I hope it useful – JUAN CALVOPINA M Apr 29 '17 at 20:21
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Even though it is accepted, it is wrong. Look under `/usr/lib/jvm`. – Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen Jan 24 '19 at 16:24
dont understand why its accepted ...this not a correct answer. – Sai prateek Apr 26 '19 at 14:42
@ThorbjørnRavnAndersen thank you for your input, when I searched the java path with the previous command I found those paths, however I updated the answer with your suggestion – JUAN CALVOPINA M Apr 28 '19 at 00:16
I get those paths but I cannot add them as SDK folder to IntelliJ setting. – bomben Jun 08 '20 at 09:11
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@Ben maybe you only have JRE and not JDK, you can try to manually download the JDK and setting it up as DaniloTeodoro explains in his post – JUAN CALVOPINA M Jun 08 '20 at 13:54

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 03 '18 at 14:47

If you don't happen to have a JDK installed you can download the latest version here

You can unpack it to your home directory so that you don't need extra permissions:

~/Downloads$  tar zxvf jdk-<version>-linux-x64.tar.gz -C ~/java/jdk/

And finally reference your new JDK on IntelliJ:

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 27 '17 at 15:49

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Alt+ Ctrl + Shift + S - Project

answered Apr 27 '17 at 15:49

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