Intellij launch error: Could not find main class com/intellij/idea/Main

Question

Intellij launch error in a Windows Environment.

When launching from the "Start Menu" getting a popup window with the following error:

Could not find main class com/intellij/idea/Main

Seems like a possible classpath issue. Can anyone recommend a quick fix, maybe in one of properties files?

Post your code. With this info is almost impossible to determine what the problem is. — lealceldeiro, Jul 05 '18 at 21:45
This is not a coding issue. I am trying to get Intellij itself to launch in a windows environment. — mba12, Jul 05 '18 at 21:45

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 01 '23 at 16:36

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For PyCharm, this worked:

edited Feb 01 '23 at 16:36

cb4

answered Aug 27 '18 at 10:18

Monseur Seye

Yogesh Ukale · Answer 2 · 2022-06-14T17:52:54.973

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For me its resolved for IntellijIdea version 22, i was getting below error when i changed IntelliJ Default JRE to JRE 17

Just we need to remove "idea64.exe.jdk" for me this location is "C:\Users{UserName}\AppData\Roaming\JetBrains\IdeaIC2022.1\idea64.exe.jdk".

edited Jun 14 '22 at 17:52

answered Jun 14 '22 at 17:40

Yogesh Ukale

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 09 '23 at 15:21

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I was getting this error with jdk version 17, but when I switched to jdk version 11 the error was resolved.

Also set the system environment variable to your system's jdk location:

JAVA_HOME = C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-11.0.11

edited Jan 09 '23 at 15:21

Fedor

answered Jan 05 '23 at 10:21

Nabanita Dasgupta

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