IntelliJ does not open from terminal

Question

I have seen in some tutorials where an existing Maven project can be opened in IntelliJ from terminal. ( open terminal; cd < folder containing pom.xml >; idea pom.xml )

When I do this I am getting the following error:

The file /private/var/folders/vx/g0dkgs9s7wg7bz8q3yplhwxh0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/A27A814D-1A7C-45BB-88E0-E2ACCA590517/d/IntelliJ IDEA.app does not exist.

I am using macOS High Sierra 10.13.2.

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but no luck.

Can somebody help me figure out what the problem is?

Answer 1

Simpler solution.

You need to recreate the CLI scripts from within the tool/application. Probably you update IntelliJ and still pointing to non-existing version >

/private/var/folders/vx/g0dkgs9s7wg7bz8q3yplhwxh0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/A27A814D-1A7C-45BB-88E0-E2ACCA590517 .....

In IntelliJ running go to Tools -> Tools -> Create Command Line Launcher..., The file '/usr/local/bin/idea' already exists Would you like to overwrite it? Open a new console and should work.

Answer 2

This happened to me from time to time when upgrade to a new version of IntelliJ or when upgrade my OS (Mojave). These are the steps that I did to fix it in macOS:

• check where the executable is located: which idea (probably will be /usr/local/bin/idea )
• I'm getting a Application Support/JetBrains/Toolbox/apps/IDEA-U/ch-0/182.4129.33/IntelliJ IDEA.app does not exist. error so I lookup into the ch-0 folder and get 182.5107.16 183.4284.148 . This is the issue, Intellij is still pointing to a previous version which does not exist.

• Opening the idea executable in step 1 and check the following section

  RUN_PATH = u'/Users/robertomoreno/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/Toolbox/apps/IDEA-U/ch-0/182.4129.33/IntelliJ IDEA.app' CONFIG_PATH = u'/Users/robertomoreno/Library/Preferences/IntelliJIdea2018.2' SYSTEM_PATH = u'/Users/robertomoreno/Library/Caches/IntelliJIdea2018.2'

• Change it with the proper version:

  RUN_PATH = u'/Users/robertomoreno/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/Toolbox/apps/IDEA-U/ch-0/183.4284.148/IntelliJ IDEA.app' CONFIG_PATH = u'/Users/robertomoreno/Library/Preferences/IntelliJIdea2018.3' SYSTEM_PATH = u'/Users/robertomoreno/Library/Caches/IntelliJIdea2018.3'

• idea path/to/file.is should work now

Answer 3

I don't know if this is how Intellij behaves. I did the following:

1. I started Intellij by clicking on the launcher icon.
2. I got the following screen.
3. Now, in a terminal I navigated to the project directory and did idea pom.xml . This opened up the project

Without launching Intellij if I try idea pom.xml from terminal, I am getting this error:

The file /private/var/folders/vx/g0dkgs9s7wg7bz8q3yplhwxh0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/A27A814D-1A7C-45BB-88E0-E2ACCA590517/d/IntelliJ IDEA.app does not exist.