Overview

This is part of the efforts to set up a remote development IDE on Debian and Aptana Studio is selected as the development tool.

Pre-requisite Installation

Oracle Java 1.5x or later

See Install Oracle JDK 1.8

Git

Install git is simple

> sudo apt-get install git-core

Aptana Studio Installation

Create a temporary working directory and download the installation zip file

> cd
> mkdir aptana
> cd aptana/
> wget https://github.com/aptana/studio3/releases/download/v3.6.1/Aptana_Studio_3_Setup_Linux_x86_3.6.1.zip

Install unzip if it is not alreadyinstalled and unzip the installation file.

> sudo apt-get install unzip
> unzip Aptana_Studio_3_Setup_Linux_x86_3.6.1.zip

Move the unzipped directory to /opt/ and start desktop if it is not yet started.

> mv Aptana_Studio_3 /opt/
> startx

The following prompt should appear

Start Aptana – got two errors

When starting Aptana, got two errors

1. “we were unable to load the Chromimum browser…”
2. java.lang.NullPointerException

Search the web and cannot find anything about “Chromimum” browser – hence conclude that it is a typo – shoud be “Chromium” browser and proceed to install the browser.

In addition, follow the link to the troubleshooting guide, the null point exception may be caused by missing pre-prequisities and environment variables

Install Chromium Browser

Straight forward installation

> apt-get update
> apt-get install chromium

Please note that Chromium Browser cannot start by root user – it makes sense that Aptana Studio should be started from other user credential – not as root.

Install additional pre-requisities

> apt-get install libjpeg62 libwebkitgtk-1.0-0

Restart desktop and Aptana – issues resolved.

Resources

1. Pre-requisities from aptana.com