How to Install PyCharm Community Edition on Linux via Tarball

Downloading PyCharm Community Edition

• 💡 Navigate to the official JetBrains website to download the PyCharm Community Edition for Linux.
• 🎯 Select the .tar.gz file for installation, noting it is approximately 1 GB in size.

Extracting the Archive

• 📂 Create a dedicated folder, for example, named PyCharm, in your home directory.
• ⚙️ Use the terminal command tar xzf <filename>.tar.gz -C /path/to/PyCharm/folder to extract the downloaded archive into your created folder.
• ⏳ Be patient as the extraction process for the 1 GB file may take some time.

Running PyCharm

• 📁 Navigate into the extracted PyCharm folder and then into the bin subdirectory.
• ▶️ Execute the PyCharm launcher script by running ./pycharm.sh from the bin folder.
• ✅ During the first launch, accept the user agreement and choose whether to share usage data.

Starting PyCharm Later

• 💻 To launch PyCharm after the initial setup, return to the terminal.
• ➡️ Navigate to the bin directory within your PyCharm installation folder.
• 🚀 Run the ./pycharm.sh command again to start the application.