Cannot update IntelliJ IDEA in Mac OS X

I recently got a error about update IntelliJ IDEA. The error as follows:

IDEA does not have write access to /Volumes/IntelliJ IDEA 14/IntelliJ IDEA 14.app/Contents. Please run it by a privileged user to update.

So I cannot update. Please show me how to solve this problem.

Solution 1:

How I managed to resolve this is by changing the owner on IntelliJ .app file, good ol' chown

sudo chown -R <your id> /Applications/IntelliJ\ IDEA\ 14.app

I was in the same situation as the bug listed above by Greg (the original install was done by our IT admin and I am also an admin user on the machine).

Solution 2:

It looks like you are running IntelliJ IDEA from a mounted read-only disk image (DMG file) that you downloaded. You need to drag the "IntelliJ IDEA 14.app" program into your application folder and run it from your hard drive.

Solution 3:

I had similar problem, but in my case, the computer is shared, so I can't change owner of folder. But I'm on admin group. By running this command update works.

sudo chmod -R g+w /Applications/IntelliJ\ IDEA\ CE.app/