How To Install PyCharm on Linux Mint 19

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install PyCharm on Linux Mint 19. For those of you who didn’t know, PyCharm is an intelligent and fully-featured IDE for Python developed by JetBrains. It also provides support for Javascript, Typescript, CSS, etc. You can also extend PyCharm features by using plugins. By using PyCharm plugins you can also get support for frameworks like Django, and Flask. We can also use PyCharm for other programming languages like HTML, SQL, Javascript, CSS, and 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 PyCharm on a Linux Mint 19 (Tricia) server.

Prerequisites

• A server running one of the following operating systems: Linux Mint 19 (Tricia) server.
• 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).
• 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 PyCharm on Linux Mint 19

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

sudo apt update

Step 2. Installing PyCharm on a Linux Mint 19.

You can install PyCharm from the Snap Store with the following command:

sudo snap install pycharm-community --classic

Step 3. Accessing PyCharm.

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

pycharm-community

Or you can start PyCharm from Applications -> PyCharm:

Congratulations! You have successfully installed PyCharm. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing the latest version of PyCharm on the Linux Mint system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official PyCharm website.