Welcome to this quick and easy tutorial on How to Install PyCharm on Windows, MacOS or Linux.
PyCharm is one of the best IDE (Integrated Development Environments) for creating Python Code, as well as other languages.
This tutorial requires that Python is already installed.
If you don’t have it installed yet, check out my tutorial on tutorial on how to install Python on Windows, MacOS and Linux first. It’s very easy to install, and shouldn’t take more than 5-10minutes. Once done, come back to this tutorial
What is PyCharm & why you should use it
The paid version of PyCharm is designed to handle other scripting languages beyond Python, such as HTML, JS, and SQL as well as scientific applications. We definitely won’t be needing any of these features, making the free community version perfect for us.
PyCharm comes with many other great features. Check out my list of the Best IDE’s for Python for more information on it and other alternatives.
Installing PyCharm is as basic as any other program:
How to Install PyCharm on Window
To install PyCharm on Windows, complete the following easy steps below:
- Visit https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/download to download the latest 64-bit version
- Double click to run the “pycharm-community.exe“
- Click “Next“
- Select a Destination Folder or use the default one.
- Enable “64-Bit“, “Create Associations to .py” and “Add Launchers dir to the PATH” options
- Click “Next” to finish the installation
How to Install PyCharm on MacOS
To install PyCharm on MacOS, complete the following easy steps below:
- Visit https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/download to download the latest 64-bit version
- Double click to run the “pycharm-community.dmg (intel)” or “.dmg (Apple Silicon)“
- Click “Continue” and “Agree“
- Wait for it to finish installing, then drag and mount it to your Applications folder
- Run the PyCharm app from the Applications directory, Launchpad, or Spotlight
How to Install PyCharm on Linux (Ubuntu) using SNAP
To install PyCharm on Linux Ubuntu, complete the following easy steps below:
- Open your BASH command line terminal with “CTRL+ALT+T”
- [OPTIONAL] Type: “snap find pycharm”
- Shows us which versions are available. You can double check this against the https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/download website to see that snap is calling the latest version.
- Press “Enter“
- Type: “sudo snap install pycharm-community –classic“
- Press “Enter“
- Enter your “Ubuntu password“
- Press “Enter“
- PyCharm will now install
- Access PyCharm through Ubuntu’s application menu, or by typing “bin/pycharm.sh” in the terminal
When you run it for the first time it will ask you if you’d like to import previous version settings or not. As this is most likely your first time installing PyCharm, you can simply select “Do not import Settings”