If however you would like to make life just that little bit easier, why don’t we continue and create a system menu item and desktop shortcut icon while we’re at it? Simply double-clicking and selecting the run in a terminal option will bring up the Aptana IDE, exactly what you were aiming for in the first place! :) Save this file in the same folder where your AptanaStudio executable file resides as runAptana.sh and then right-click on it and head to the Permissions tab where you need to check the box labelled ‘allow executing file as program’.Īt this point you’ll be pleased to know that you are actually finished. home/craiglotter/aptana/AptanaStudio #the filepath to the AptanaStudio executable Right, once the archive is down, unpack it to your home folder and then bring up your favourite text editor and add the following lines in a new text file:Įxport MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/xulrunner
Watch it though, it is a big file so this step might actually take quite a while longer than what you thought to actually complete! Step 2, download and extract the latest linux release from the Aptana website ().
Step 1, install Java and the other required dependencies in one fell swoop: sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin xulrunner from a terminal window. Naturally, in the Windows world installing the IDE is a breeze, but here in Ubuntu Linux land, things aren’t quite that bright and breezy. Aptana is a pretty decent Eclipse-based web development IDE with a horde of plugins and features that really does make it one of those tools to use or at least pretend that you know of.