These instructions are for installing the standalone version of Aptana Studio 3.
1. Install Sun Java – Aptana Studio doesn’t currently work with OpenJDK:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/java sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-plugin
2. Download & install xulrunner – Ubuntu 11.10 doesn’t include xulrunner so it must be downloaded.
If you are using Ubuntu 64 bit use:
wget -O xulrunner.deb http://launchpadlibrarian.net/70321329/xulrunner-1.9.2_1.9.2.17%2Bbuild3%2Bnobinonly-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i xulrunner.deb
If you are using Ubuntu 32 bit use:
wget -O xulrunner.deb http://launchpadlibrarian.net/70321863/xulrunner-1.9.2_1.9.2.17%2Bbuild3%2Bnobinonly-0ubuntu1_i386.deb sudo dpkg -i xulrunner.deb
3. Download the Standalone version of Aptana Studio 3 from the Aptana Studio website.
4. Unzip it to /opt/aptana-studio-3:
sudo unzip [name of Aptana Studio ZIP file here].zip -d /opt sudo mv /opt/Aptana\ Studio\ 3 /opt/aptana-studio-3
5. Install the menu item:
wget http://www.samclarke.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/AptanaStudio.desktop sudo mv AptanaStudio.desktop /usr/share/applications/AptanaStudio.desktop
That’s it, Aptana Studio 3 should now be installed and ready to use. You may need to log out and back in it to show in the menu.
I am new with Ubuntu and Aptana. I have installed Aptana on Ubuntu according your instructions and it works great. Thank you so much.
Thanks very much for the post – excellent
I have it installed and I can run it from the /opt folder. But I cannot get it to appear in the menu. Can someone help me?
The last two commands should add a menu item.
wget http://www.samclarke.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/AptanaStudio.desktopsudo mv AptanaStudio.desktop /usr/share/applications/AptanaStudio.desktop
The first command gets the menu item and the second puts it in the right location. You may need to restart for them to show up though.
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