I do love the Jetbrains products. I use Pycharm Pro and home and at work. GoLand at home. I installed pycharm-bin for years, but that was version 2019... yuck. Recently it was updated to 2023.2.1. However, I have a subscription for both Pycharm Pro and GoLand. I like Pycharm Pro's integration with databases. Makes life a little easier.
You can download the Jetbrains products from Jetbrains. You can download the latest version of the Community Edition if you want.
Here's what I did to get things to work.
Download the files
Downloaded the latest version of the Pro edition. This puts a "tarball" in your Downloads directory.
Unzip the contents to the directory of your choice. I put mine in my home directory.
~> tar xavf pycharm-professional-2023.3.2.tar.gz -C ~
You should have something like this in whatever directory you unzipped (untarred?) your file.
~> tree -d -L 1 ~>
pycharm-2023.3.2/
├── bin
├── debug-eggs
├── help
├── jbr
├── lib
├── license
├── modules
└── plugins
Fixing pycharm.py
- Next you need to address the
pycharm-2023.3.2/bin/pycharm.sh file. Running it as is gives you errors.
- Replace
pycharm.sh with the file you find here, pycharmpro2023.3.sh.
- If you try to run pycharm.py now you will get a bunch of ugly Java errors. To fix this mess we need to make sure the Linux compat layer is enabled and mount the proper Linux proc and tmpfs directories. This is done like so.
Setting up Linux
You can enable the Linux compat layer in two ways.
~> sudo modload linux_compat
~> modstat | grep compat_linux
compat_linux exec filesys - 0 - compat_ossaudio,sysv_ipc,compat_util,compat_50,compat_43,exec_elf64
To make sure Linux compat is loaded after a reboot, add it to the /etc/modules.conf file. If it doesn't exist, create it.
~> cat /etc/modules.conf
compat_linux
- Now you need to make sure the proper mount points are set for Linux. Add the following lines to your
/etc/fstab file.
procfs /emul/linux/proc procfs ro,linux
tmpfs /emul/linux/dev/shm tmpfs rw,-m1777
My `/etc/fstab` looks like this
> cat /etc/fstab
# NetBSD /etc/fstab
# See /usr/share/examples/fstab/ for more examples.
NAME=<snip> / ffs rw 1 1
NAME=<snip> none swap sw,dp 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,-m=1777,-s=ram%25
kernfs /kern kernfs rw
ptyfs /dev/pts ptyfs rw
procfs /proc procfs rw
procfs /emul/linux/proc procfs ro,linux
tmpfs /var/shm tmpfs rw,-m1777,-sram%25
tmpfs /emul/linux/dev/shm tmpfs rw,-m1777
Launch Pycharm
- Execute the following command. (If you did not install to the $HOME directory, your location will, of course, be different).
<$INSTALL_DIRECTORY>/bin/pycharm.sh
You should be able to enjoy a most excellent IDE!
