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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.
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(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.