How to Install Spring Tool Suite™ 3 on Ubuntu 18

Spring Tools Suite is the next generation of Spring tooling for your favorite coding environment. Largely rebuilt from scratch, it provides world-class support for developing Spring-based enterprise application [1].

1. Use one of the links below to download an all-in-one distribution for your platform (Windows, mac, Linux). In this case, Linux for our Ubuntu 18.

Spring Tool Suite Download Page

The following file will be downloaded into your Downloads directory.
spring-tool-suite-3.9.10.RELEASE-e4.13.0-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz

2. Now open your terminal (Alt + Ctrl + T) and go to your Downloads directory and execute the following commands

cd Downloads
sudo mv spring-tool-suite-3.9.10.RELEASE-e4.13.0-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz /opt
cd /opt/
sudo tar zxvf spring-tool-suite-3.9.10.RELEASE-e4.13.0-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz
sudo ln -s /opt/sts-bundle/sts-3.9.10.RELEASE/STS /usr/local/bin/sts
sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/stsLauncher.desktop

3. Now use, gedit or nano to create an application launcher for STS.

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Spring Tool Suite
Comment=Spring Tool Suite 3.9.10
Exec=/opt/sts-bundle/sts-3.9.10.RELEASE/STS
Icon=/opt/sts-bundle/sts-3.9.10.RELEASE/icon.xpm
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Development;IDE;Java;

4. Typing “Spring Tool Suite” in the Application Search will bring up the STS App icon.

5. Finally, click the icon to Launch Spring Tool Suite. Happy Coding!