Jul 31, 2025
I need to use IntelliJ Idea for certain Java projects at university. It doesn't work out of the box in Alpine Linux because of a missing dynamic loader.
Thanks to this article, I can now start the IDE using the native JDK. I specifically use JDK 21 to support the IdeaVim plugin.
IDEA_JDK=/usr/lib/jvm/java-21-openjdk /opt/idea-IC-252.23892.409/bin/idea.sh