Run the pycharm-professional or pycharm-community-*.exe file that starts the Installation Wizard.
Follow all steps suggested by the wizard. Pay special attention to the corresponding
installation options.
OS X
System Requirements
Installation
OS X 10.5 or higher, including 10.10
Only 64-bit OS X is supported.
Python 2.4 or higher, Jython, PyPy or IronPython
Download the pycharm-professional or pycharm-community-*.dmg OS X Disk Image file from the
Download
page.
Double-click the downloaded pycharm-professional or pycharm-community-*.dmg OS X Disk Image file to mount it.
Copy PyCharm to your Applications folder.
Note: Open JDK 1.8 customized by the JetBrains team is bundled in OS X distribution.
Linux
System Requirements
Installation
OS Linux
KDE, GNOME or Unity DE desktop
Python 2.4 or higher, Jython, PyPy or IronPython
Download the pycharm-professional or pycharm-community-*.tar.gz file from the
Download
page.
Unpack the pycharm-professional or pycharm-community-*.tar.gz file to an empty directory using the following command:
tar xfz pycharm-professional or pycharm-community-*.tar.gz
Because running PyCharm from wherever you downloaded the file to may be inconvenient, it
is recommended that you move the extracted or unpacked archive folder to the desired
location using the mv command in one of the following formats:
mv /downloads/pycharm-professional or pycharm-community-*.tar.gz my/desired/location
Switch to the bin directory in the new location:
cd <newarchivefolder>/pycharm-professional or pycharm-community-*/bin
For example,
cd my/desired/location/pycharm-professional or pycharm-community-*/bin
Run pycharm-professional or pycharm-community.sh from the bin subdirectory.
Note: Open JDK 1.8 customized by JetBrains is bundled in Linux distribution.
In case you are not happy with it, feel free to switch to another JRE
installed in your system.