Flutter Doctor - Cannot determine if IntelliJ is installed

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Flutter Doctor - Cannot determine if IntelliJ is installed

I have tried installing flutter 2.2 on my Mac OSX but flutter doctor was throwing a error for IntelliJ. I have already installed IntelliJ IDEA CE on my MAC OSX.

I have followed the below documentation but there was no log which confirms the folder in which it is searching for IntelliJ. Reference Manual

(base) Thomass-MacBook-Pro:JLPT thomasvimaleasok$ flutter doctor -v
[✓] Flutter (Channel stable, 2.2.0, on macOS 11.1 20C69 darwin-x64, locale
    en-IN)
    • Flutter version 2.2.0 at
      /Users/thomasvimaleasok/Projects/flutterapps/flutter
    • Framework revision b22742018b (4 days ago), 2021-05-14 19:12:57 -0700
    • Engine revision a9d88a4d18
    • Dart version 2.13.0

[✓] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 30.0.2)
    • Android SDK at /Users/thomasvimaleasok/Library/Android/sdk
    • Platform android-30, build-tools 30.0.2
    • Java binary at: /Applications/Android
      Studio.app/Contents/jre/jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java
    • Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build
      1.8.0_242-release-1644-b3-6222593)
    • All Android licenses accepted.

[✓] Xcode - develop for iOS and macOS
    • Xcode at /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
    • Xcode 12.4, Build version 12D4e
    • CocoaPods version 1.10.1

[✓] Chrome - develop for the web
    • Chrome at /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome

[✓] Android Studio (version 4.0)
    • Android Studio at /Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents
    • Flutter plugin can be installed from:
       https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/9212-flutter
    • Dart plugin can be installed from:
       https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/6351-dart
    • Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build
      1.8.0_242-release-1644-b3-6222593)

[✗] Cannot determine if IntelliJ is installed
    ✗ Directory listing failed

[✓] VS Code (version 1.54.1)
    • VS Code at /Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents
    • Flutter extension can be installed from:
       https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Dart-Code.flutter

[✓] Connected device (1 available)
    • Chrome (web) • chrome • web-javascript • Google Chrome 90.0.4430.212

! Doctor found issues in 1 category.

Answer 1

I fought with this error for a while, but finally found a solution for my case.

There was a folder in my Applications folder (unrelated to IntelliJ) that wasn't readable. A sudo chmod a+rx on that location resolved the problem.

flutter doctor -vv turned up the error, but the problem appeared at the beginning of the execution log, and not anywhere near the Cannot determine if IntelliJ is installed error.