How to Install PyCharm on Lubuntu 16.04 Xenial LTS

Lubuntu Xenial PyCharm Installation

2. Download PyCharm Community Ed. for Lubuntu

   PyCharm Linux tar.gz

   PyCharm Linux

   Select the PyCharm Community Edition for Linux.

3. Double-Click on Archive Extract into /tmp

   

   Or from Command Line:

   tar xvzf ~/Downloads/pycharm-community*.tar.gz -C /tmp/

4. Relocating PyCharm
   First, Set the SuperUser as owner:

   sudo su -c "chown -R root:root /tmp/pycharm*"

   To Switch the PyCharm contents:

   sudo mv /tmp/pycharm-community* /opt/pycharm-community

5. Making PyCharm Symlinks.

   sudo su -c "ln -s /opt/pycharm-community/bin/pycharm.sh /usr/local/bin/pycharm"

   sudo su -c "ln -s /opt/pycharm-community/bin/inspect.sh /usr/local/bin/inspect"

6. Finally, to Launch PyCharm Python IDE
   From Shell:

   pycharm

   Then choose Create Desktop Entry from the ‘configure‘ Menu to make a Launcher:

   

7. PyCharm Quick Start Hello-World Python

   PyCharm Quick Start Guide

   PyCharm Quick Start