If you are struggling to set up Pycharm IDE in Linux and don't know where to start then this guide is for you. I hope this guide will help you and will make things easy. Let’s get started.

♦ Setting Up Pycharm IDE

Download the Pycharm  IDE(https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/download/) and extract its contents to ‘/opt/’ and install it by running the bellow commands.

cd /opt/ 

sudo tar -xvzf ~/Downloads/pycharm* #extract the files

sudo mv pycharm* pycharm # Rename the folder (optional)

./pycharm/bin/pycharm.sh #Run the installer

Follow the instructions to installer the IDE. Once done, close the IDE and create a file named 'jetbrains-pycharm.desktop' and put below content in it

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Pycharm Jetbrains
Icon=/opt/pycharm/bin/pycharm.svg
Exec="/opt/pycharm/bin/pycharm.sh" %f
Comment=Python IDE
Categories=Development;IDE;
Terminal=false

Finally, run the below command to make a launch icon in your applications' menu.

sudo desktop-file-install jetbrains-pycharm.desktop

Congratulations! You should have successfully set up Pycharm IDE in your Linux distro.

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