How to install PyCharm in Ubuntu 16.04/ Ubuntu 14.04/ Ubuntu 18.04/ Linux (Easiest way) ?

Shreya Singh
2 min readJun 20, 2018

The easiest way which worked for me includes the following steps:

  1. Go to https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/download/#section=linux
    There are two versions available:
    a)Community edition- Lightweight IDE for Python & Scientific development
    b)Professional edition-Full-featured IDE for Python & Web development, has 30 day free trial
  2. Download any of the two, I would recommend Community edition.
  3. Open terminal
  4. cd Downloads
  5. tar -xzf pycharm-community-2018.1.4.tar.gz
  6. cd pycharm-community-2018.1.4
  7. cd bin
  8. sh pycharm.sh
  9. Now a window will open like this:
Click on Do not import settings and click OK

10. Next select the defaults options in the bottom left corner:

Skip Remaining and Set Defaults

11. You should get this:

Pycharm IDE

12. Next create a Desktop entry or once the project opens go to: Tools-> Create Desktop Entry

Create Desktop Icon

13. You are done, create project and start working.

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Shreya Singh

Software Development Engineer at Amazon, Google APAC Women Techmaker Scholar, C.S.E. Graduate @ NIT Patna