How To Install PhpStorm on Debian 10

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install PhpStorm on Debian 10. For those of you who didn’t know, PhpStorm is an intelligent and fully-featured IDE for PHP developed by JetBrains. It also provides support for Javascript, Typescript, CSS, etc. You can also extend PhpStorm features by using plugins. By using PhpStorm plugins you can also get support for frameworks like Laravel, and CodeIgniter. We can also use PhpStrom for other programming languages like HTML, SQL, Javascript, CSS, and many more.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of PhpStorm on a Debian 10 (Buster) server.

Prerequisites

• A server running one of the following operating systems: Debian 10 (Buster).
• It’s recommended that you use a fresh OS install to prevent any potential issues.
• SSH access to the server (or just open Terminal if you’re on a desktop).
• An active internet connection. You’ll need an internet connection to download the necessary packages and dependencies for PhpStorm.
• A non-root sudo user or access to the root user. We recommend acting as a non-root sudo user, however, as you can harm your system if you’re not careful when acting as the root.

Install PhpStorm on Debian 10 Buster

Step 1. Before we install any software, it’s important to make sure your system is up to date by running the following apt commands in the terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Step 2. Installing Snappy Manager.

Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. To install the Snappy package manager type the following command:

sudo apt install snapd snapd-xdg-open

Step 3. Installing PhpStorm on Debian 10.

Once the repositories package list is updated in your system, you can start the PhpStorm installation using the below command:

sudo snap install phpstorm --classic

Step 4. Start PhpStorm on Debian Linux.

After successful installation to start PHPStorm via the terminal run the following command:

phpstorm

Congratulations! You have successfully installed PhpStorm. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing PhpStorm on Debian 10 (Buster). For additional help or useful information, we recommend you check the official PhpStorm website.