How can I install the Spring Tool Suite in Ubuntu?

Question

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

Answer 1

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).

Answer 2

Step 1: Download the latest Spring Tool Suite for Linux from STS official website: http://spring.io/tools/sts/all

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"

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

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

1. Extract the file
2. Go to sts-bundle>sts-3.8.1.RELEASE and click on STS
3. Start using

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

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.

Answer 7

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

Answer 8

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/

4. Then create a sample project in STS