&gt; I am wary of installing anything on a Debian machine that I can&#x27;t just get using aptitude (sudo apt-get install foo).<p>I don&#x27;t think that is really an issue (anymore?) - I&#x27;ve installed deb packages manually and compiled stuff from scratch. The only problem you could run into is if package A from the Debain repos requires Version X.1 - but you installed some random deb which installed Version X.2 - you might get into dependency issues. I&#x27;ve found backports to fill this gap.<p>In fact the Jetbrains stuff is self contained so you need to bring your own JRE and run it from the folder that you extracted it to.