In this tutorial, we will show you how to install PyCharm on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, PyCharm is an IDE for Python development and has been considered as one of the best Python IDE by experts. The IDE comes with a professional and community edition. The community edition is free of cost, but the professional edition has more features.
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Install PyCharm on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver
Step 1. First, make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date by running the following apt-get commands in the terminal.
sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade
Step 2. Installing PyCharm on Ubuntu 18.04.
- Method 1: Install PyCharm in Ubuntu using Snap.
To download and install the PyCharm snap package, open your terminal and following this command:
sudo snap install pycharm-community --classic
- Method 2: Install PyCharm in Ubuntu using umake.
Install PyCharm using umake, you need to have umake first, using following commands to install unmake:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-desktop/ubuntu-make sudo apt update sudo apt install ubuntu-make
Once you installed umake, use the command below to install PyCharm Community Edition:
umake ide pycharm
- Method 3: Install PyCharm in Ubuntu using PPA.
First, add PPA repository, The PPA contains both the Professional and free Community version:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mystic-mirage/pycharm sudo apt update
Run the commands below one by one in the terminal to install the Professional version:
apt install pycharm
For the community version, replace the last command with:
apt install pycharm-community
Congratulations! You have successfully installed PyCharm. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing PyCharm on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic beaver) system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you check the official PyCharm website.