How to run PyCharm in Ubuntu - "Run in Terminal" or "Run"?

Question

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.

nano .bashrc

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

pycharm.sh

Solution 3

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 to create Pycharm launcher. 
     1. Start Pycharm using the pycharm.sh cmd from anywhere on the terminal or start the pycharm.sh located under bin folder of the pycharm artifact.
     2. Once the Pycharm application loads, navigate to tools menu and select “Create Desktop Entry..”
     3. Check the box if you want the launcher for all users.
     4. If you Check the box i.e “Create entry for all 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 4

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 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

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Comments

[Phu Ngo]

Your submission doesn't seem to answer the question (difference between "Run in Terminal" and "Run").