How To Run Pycharm In Ubuntu - "run In Terminal" Or "run"?

When I double-click on pycharm.sh, Ubuntu lets me choose between 'Run in Terminal' and 'Run'. What is the difference between these options?

Solution 1:

To make it a bit more user-friendly: After you've unpacked it, go into the directory, and run bin/pycharm.sh. Once it opens, it either offers you to create a desktop entry, or if it doesn't, you can ask it to do so by going to the Tools menu and selecting Create Desktop Entry...

Then close PyCharm, and in the future you can just click on the created menu entry. (or copy it onto your Desktop)

To answer the specifics between Run and Run in Terminal: It's essentially the same, but "Run in Terminal" actually opens a terminal window first and shows you console output of the program. Chances are you don't want that :)

(Unless you are trying to debug an application, you usually do not need to see the output of it.)

Solution 2:

The question is already answered, Updating answer to add the PyCharm bin directory to $PATH var, so that pycharm editor can be opened from anywhere(path) in terminal.

Edit the bashrc file,

nano .bashrc

Add following line at the end of bashrc file

export PATH="<path-to-unpacked-pycharm-installation-directory>/bin:$PATH"

Now you can open pycharm from anywhere in terminal

pycharm.sh

Solution 3:

For Pycharm CE 2018.3 and Ubuntu 18.04 with snap installation:

env BAMF_DESKTOP_FILE_HINT=/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/pycharm-community_pycharm-community.desktop /snap/bin/pycharm-community %f

I get this command from KDE desktop launch icon.

Sorry for the language but I am a Spanish developer so I have my system in Spanish.

Solution 4:

As mentioned in the above answer, by updating the bashrc file you can run the pycharm.sh from anywhere on the linux terminal.

But if you love the icon and wants the Desktop shortcuts for the Pycharm on Ubuntu OS then follow the Below steps,

 Quick way tocreate Pycharm launcher. 
     1.Start Pycharm using the pycharm.sh cmd from anywhere on the terminal orstart the pycharm.sh located under bin folder of the pycharm artifact.
     2. Once the Pycharm application loads, navigate to tools menu andselect “Create Desktop Entry..”
     3.Check the box if you want the launcher forall users.
     4. If you Check the box i.e “Create entry forall users”, you will be asked for your password.
     5. A message should appear informing you that it was successful.
     6. Now Restart Pycharm application and you will find Pycharm in Unity dash and Application launcher.."

Solution 5:

You can launch PyCharm from terminal using pycharm-community or pycharm-professional if installed via snap. See here for more details: Location of PyCharm after install PyCharm as snap package