Completely Uninstall and Install RubyMine
1 min readJan 3, 2019
To completely uninstall RubyMine follow these steps:
locate RubyMine
It will list all the places where RubyMine is installed this may vary from system to system please check and then remove it but generally the files are in these places. Here USERNAME refers to your system username and VERSION is your RubyMine Version.
sudo rm -rf /home/USERNAME/.java/.userPrefs/jetbrainssudo rm -rf /home/USERNAME/RubyMine-VERSION/sudo rm -rf /home/USERNAME/.local/share/applications/jetbrains-rubymine.desktopsudo rm -rf /home/USERNAME/.local/share/icons/jetbrains-rubymine.png
After this locate intelliJ using
locate intelliJ
which will give you all the places where intellij stored their data and its database
sudo rm -rf /home/USERNAME/.RubyMine-VERSION/
Installation
Download RubyMine-VERSION.tar.gz and cd
to the folder
tar -xzvf RubyMine-Version.tar.gz
cd RubyMine-VERSION/bin
sh rubymine.sh
Now lock it to launcher and then restart it.