Software Centre?

[Owen Thomas]

On Tue, 27 Dec 2022 at 16:02, Aaron Rainbolt <arraybolt3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ubuntu Software sometimes just takes a long time to load. The search
> also has been somewhat glitchy in my experience. You might be able to
> type a longer search term in and get it to work.
>

I've let it go for more than two hours now without results. The Software
Centre has seldom worked for me but maybe I haven't complained about it
until now just because I wanted to get on with my life and often found
another way to do what I wanted at the time.


> Personally, I install applications from the terminal - that's usually
> the most comfortable for me. A quick `snap search intellij` popped up
> the app you probably want, intellij-idea-community. `sudo snap install
> intellij-idea-community` should install it.
>

Yes, that's the one, thanks. I'll work on this option now. I hope that
IntelliJ is cleanly installed this way, and I hope the installation will
not encounter a problem converting Java to Kotlin as the advertising seems
to falsely implore.
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