Pycharm Community Fast Install with Install bash Script.

Pycharm is the defacto power tool for pycharm development.

• Super fast.
• Opensource

Here is a powerful bash script to install it:

nano install.sh
# Paste the below code into it..
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Exit on error
set -e

# Define variables
DOWNLOAD_URL="https://download.jetbrains.com/python/pycharm-community-2025.2.1.1.tar.gz"
FILENAME=$(basename "$DOWNLOAD_URL")
EXTRACT_DIR="/opt/pycharm-community"
SYMLINK_PATH="/usr/local/bin/pycharm"

# Update package lists (optional but recommended for any potential dependencies)
echo "Updating package lists..."
sudo apt update

# Install required tools if not present (wget and tar are usually installed, but ensure)
if ! command -v wget &> /dev/null || ! command -v tar &> /dev/null; then
    echo "Installing wget and tar..."
    sudo apt install -y wget tar
fi

# Download the tar.gz file
echo "Downloading PyCharm Community Edition from $DOWNLOAD_URL..."
wget -O "/tmp/$FILENAME" "$DOWNLOAD_URL"

# Extract the archive
echo "Extracting $FILENAME to $EXTRACT_DIR..."
sudo mkdir -p "$EXTRACT_DIR"
sudo tar -xzf "/tmp/$FILENAME" -C "$EXTRACT_DIR" --strip-components=1

# Clean up the downloaded file
rm "/tmp/$FILENAME"

# Create symlink for easy access
echo "Creating symlink at $SYMLINK_PATH..."
sudo ln -sf "$EXTRACT_DIR/bin/pycharm.sh" "$SYMLINK_PATH"

# Verify installation
if command -v pycharm &> /dev/null; then
    echo "Installation successful. Launch PyCharm with the command: pycharm"
else
    echo "Installation failed. Please check for errors above."
    exit 1
fi

Running it was simply a matter of inputting your root account, and in it goes:

This took a bit to install:

Once it was done - you could now easily access a virtual and powerful and opensource pycharm even over ssh.

ssh -X you@192.168.1.3

From here it is very assistive and supportive for quickly creating and testing LLM models.