How to Install Aptana Studio 3 in Fedora 15

A friend told me about Aptana Studio, an Open Source web development IDE. I think I used it years ago but then switched to NetBeans for some reason. After taking a look at Aptana’s website I decided I wanted to try it again. Below are three simple steps I followed to install Aptana Studio in Fedora 15.

1.Download Apatana Studio 3 from http://www.aptana.com/products/studio3/download and extract the content of the downloaded zip file.

2.Move Aptana Studio 3 to a standard location

mv Aptana\ Studio\ 3 /usr/local/aptana-studio-3

3.Create a file /usr/share/applications/aptana.desktop with the following content:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Name=Aptana Studio 3
Comment=The professional, open source development tool for the open web
Icon=/usr/local/aptana-studio-3/icon.xpm
GenericName=Aptana Studio
Type=Application
Exec=/usr/local/aptana-studio-3/AptanaStudio3
MimeType=text/plain;
Categories=Development;IDE;

Although Aptana can be easily run just after you download the application, I like to have menu entries for most of the software I use, hopefully I’m not the only one who thinks like that and the above can help them.