WebStorm 2016.1 Help

System Requirements and Installation

In this section:

Hardware Requirements

  • 1 GB RAM minimum, 2 GB RAM recommended
  • 1024x768 minimum screen resolution

System Requirements

Important! Oracle JRE 1.8 is bundled with distributions for all platforms.

Windows

System RequirementsInstallation
  • Microsoft Windows 10/8/7/Vista/2003/XP (incl.64-bit)
  1. Download WebStorm from the Download page.
  2. Run the WebStorm-*.exe file that starts the Installation Wizard.
  3. Follow all steps suggested by the wizard. Pay special attention to the corresponding installation options.

OS X

System Requirements Installation
  • OS X 10.5 or higher, including 10.10
  • Only 64-bit OS X is supported.
  1. Download the WebStorm-*.dmg OS X Disk Image file from the Download page.
  2. Double-click the downloaded WebStorm-*.dmg OS X Disk Image file to mount it.
  3. Copy WebStorm to your Applications folder.

Linux

System RequirementsInstallation
  • OS Linux
  • KDE, GNOME or Unity DE desktop
  1. Download the WebStorm-*.tar.gz file from the Download page.
  2. Unpack the WebStorm-*.tar.gz file to an empty directory using the following command:
    tar xfz WebStorm-*.tar.gz
  3. Because running WebStorm from wherever you downloaded the file to may be inconvenient, it is recommended that you move the extracted or unpacked archive folder to the desired location using the mv command in one of the following formats:
    • mv <path to extracted archive folder> <new archive folder>
      For example:
      mv /downloads/WebStorm-* my/desired/location
    • mv <path to WebStorm-*.tar.gz> <new archive folder>
      For example:
      mv /downloads/WebStorm-*.tar.gz my/desired/location
  4. Switch to the bin directory in the new location:
    cd <new archive folder>/WebStorm-*/bin
    For example,
    cd my/desired/location/WebStorm-*/bin
  5. Run WebStorm.sh from the bin subdirectory.

See Also

Last modified: 11 July 2016