Installing Aptana Studio on Ubuntu

Aptana Studio is one my favorite IDEs for Web Development. It has excellent Syntax Highlighting and Code Completion for HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, Ruby, etc.

I have been using it for more than 2 years on Windows. I recently installed Ubuntu 9.04 Linux on my machine. I tried installing Aptana Studio on Ubuntu but to my surprise, installing Aptana on Ubuntu is not as easy as it is on Windows and Mac. I searched online alot and finally found the solution at http://maketecheasier.com/install-aptana-studio-in-ubuntu-intrepid/2009/03/23

Here are the steps to install it...

1. Download and install all dependencies. Open Terminal and enter this command

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin xulrunner

2. Download Aptana for Linux from http://72.3.219.182/studio/download/thanks?platform=standalone&os=linux&ev=3.4

2. Save it in your Home Directory and Unzip it there.

3. Create one executable file. (eg. launchAptana.sh)

4. Write this in that file.

#!/bin/bash
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/xulrunner
/home/damien/aptana/AptanaStudio  #filepath to Aptana folder

5. Right Click on that file and give it execute permission.


Now you can run Aptana Studio by double clicking on that newly created file.

Source: http://maketecheasier.com/install-aptana-studio-in-ubuntu-intrepid/2009/03/23

Upgrading to newer Version

I had to uninstall Ubuntu from my machine due to some reason. I again installed Ubuntu 7.10 on my last night. I wanted to upgrade it to 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope). I tried doing to using Upgrade Manager (System -> Administration -> Upgrade Manager) but it upgraded it to 8.04. I then came to know that I can not upgrade directly to 9.04. I have to pass through all the versions in between. So, I upgraded to 8.04. After upgrading to 8.04, I tried to upgrade it to 8.10 (next release after 8.04) but it did not work. I always said "System is up to date".

I googled online but found no luck (May be I did not try hard. I am a lazy ass ;-) ). Finally I got solution from http://twitter.com/be3 on Twitter.

It's very simple. Go to Console and type update-manager -d

It then upgraded to 8.10 (as I said, we need to pass through all intermediate releases). I should hopfully be able to upgrade to version 9.04. :-)