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I followed installation of IntelliJ IDEA as described in the following session.

Install IntelliJ IDEA as a snap package on Linux

sudo snap install intellij-idea-community --classic

And it says ...

When the snap is installed, you can launch it by running the intellij-idea-community

When I actually run it as follow:

intellij-idea-community

Command 'intellij-idea-community' not found, but can be installed with:

sudo snap install intellij-idea-community

I got the above error

So when I try listing snap
sudo snap list

Name                     Version    Rev   Tracking  Developer  Notes
core                     16-2.32.8  4650  stable    canonical  core
gnome-3-26-1604          3.26.0     64    stable/…  canonical  -
gnome-calculator         3.28.1     167   stable/…  canonical  -
gnome-characters         3.28.0     86    stable/…  canonical  -
gnome-logs               3.28.0     31    stable/…  canonical  -
gnome-system-monitor     3.26.0     39    stable/…  canonical  -
intellij-idea-community  2018.1.4   51    stable    jetbrains  classic

And this is the 

snap version
snap    2.32.8+18.04
snapd   2.32.8+18.04
series  16
ubuntu  18.04
kernel  4.15.0-22-generic

On ubuntu 18.04

I have no idea where I made mistake.

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  • Can you run other commands installed via snap? Have you tried to re-login? Check your [snap directory structure](https://docs.snapcraft.io/snaps/structure) to see the installed application. Can you run it from snap `bin` folder? – Andrey May 31 '18 at 12:55

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intellij-idea-community binary is in /snap/bin, which needs to be added to PATH. Don't know why this is not done automatically or mentioned in the documentation.

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Using snap is prerequisite for you? Otherwise consider using Toolbox App.

You can install any Jetbrains product and it manages updates automatically. You can even rollback to a previous version in case of trouble.

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  • how does this answer the question? – eis Nov 08 '20 at 12:50
  • Sorry I just want to share my experience. I already tested different options to install and to maintain the installation of IntelliJ. My conclusion is using Jetbrains Toolbox is a lot easier. Of course, as I said above, if snap is not a prerequisite. – Ekans Nov 09 '20 at 14:42