PyCharm keeps breaking

[MiszS]

Hi guys, so i recently switched to linux mint (love it btw), and the only issue is that pycharm keeps breaking, like i install it, its fine, and then after some times its just "there was an error launching this application" when i click the desktop shortcut, and its also gone from the start menu, this has arleady happened 2 times to me in literally less than 3 days, and im rlly confused what is going on

[Skipple]

How are you installing PyCharm? 

[Brando212]

are you open to alternate IDEs? I've personally switched over to Visual Studio Code on both windows and linux for my python and other needs.

[MiszS]

37 minutes ago, Brando212 said:

are you open to alternate IDEs? I've personally switched over to Visual Studio Code on both windows and linux for my python and other needs.

not rlly, i like how pycharm looks and everything about it

[MiszS]

1 hour ago, Skipple said:

How are you installing PyCharm? 

extracting the archive, going into some folders, and executing python.sh, thats what i saw in a tutorial, that may be the problem when i think about it

[Brando212]

28 minutes ago, MiszS said:

extracting the archive, going into some folders, and executing python.sh, thats what i saw in a tutorial, that may be the problem when i think about it

that's probably not the best way to install

 

it should be available in the software manager as normal it looks like; both as a native package and as a snap package

 

https://thesecmaster.com/3-ways-to-install-pycharm-on-linux-mint-and-ubuntu/

[MiszS]

25 minutes ago, Brando212 said:

that's probably not the best way to install

 

it should be available in the software manager as normal it looks like; both as a native package and as a snap package

 

https://thesecmaster.com/3-ways-to-install-pycharm-on-linux-mint-and-ubuntu/

idk, the snap package kinda sucks since i can only run it from the terminal, it doesnt even let me create a desktop entry, and the one from software manager has a lot of bad reviews, gonna try it anyway

[Brando212]

6 minutes ago, MiszS said:

idk, the snap package kinda sucks since i can only run it from the terminal, it doesnt even let me create a desktop entry, and the one from software manager has a lot of bad reviews, gonna try it anyway

yeah I'm not a fan of snap either. Flatpaks aren't bad though but doesn't seem like PyCharm has a flatpak.

 

as for the native package in software center, it should be a mirror of the package you were trying to manually install, so it could just be review bombs or from previous bugs since fixed.

 

edit: also never experienced an issue with menu/desktop shortcuts with snap packages but then Mint is known for going out of their way not to support Snap so could be their doing there.

[MiszS]

8 minutes ago, Brando212 said:

yeah I'm not a fan of snap either. Flatpaks aren't bad though but doesn't seem like PyCharm has a flatpak.

 

as for the native package in software center, it should be a mirror of the package you were trying to manually install, so it could just be review bombs or from previous bugs since fixed.

 

edit: also never experienced an issue with menu/desktop shortcuts with snap packages but then Mint is known for going out of their way not to support Snap so could be their doing there.

i mean the version in software manager is the flatpack one, i cant find a different one

[MiszS]

12 hours ago, Brando212 said:

yeah I'm not a fan of snap either. Flatpaks aren't bad though but doesn't seem like PyCharm has a flatpak.

 

as for the native package in software center, it should be a mirror of the package you were trying to manually install, so it could just be review bombs or from previous bugs since fixed.

 

edit: also never experienced an issue with menu/desktop shortcuts with snap packages but then Mint is known for going out of their way not to support Snap so could be their doing there.

nah bro tf happened, after i installed the flatpack pycharm, which so far works fine, i see that theres another version of it in the start menu, but with different icon, and both work fine, is that the snap package one from yesterday?

 

[Brando212]

4 hours ago, MiszS said:

nah bro tf happened, after i installed the flatpack pycharm, which so far works fine, i see that theres another version of it in the start menu, but with different icon, and both work fine, is that the snap package one from yesterday?

the other icon might be the one you installed manually; the start menu / app launcher is where it would normally show. I know desktop shortcuts aren't really done by default anymore in most linux environments (most distros have desktop icons disabled by default even).

 

though you could check if it's the snap package pretty easily either with the command line check or by installing the GUI snap store. I forgot to mention it yesterday after you stated could only manage snap through terminal but you can actually install the GUI snap store. The package to install is snap-store like so

 

sudo snap install snap-store

[MiszS]

6 hours ago, Brando212 said:

the other icon might be the one you installed manually; the start menu / app launcher is where it would normally show. I know desktop shortcuts aren't really done by default anymore in most linux environments (most distros have desktop icons disabled by default even).

 

though you could check if it's the snap package pretty easily either with the command line check or by installing the GUI snap store. I forgot to mention it yesterday after you stated could only manage snap through terminal but you can actually install the GUI snap store. The package to install is snap-store like so

 

sudo snap install snap-store

oh thx for the tip, had no idea i can install snap store gui and yea the pycharm was there, what happened i think is that when i installed the snap pycharm yesterday, it didnt appear in start menu, and i didnt rlly know what to do, so i installed a flathub version, but after restart it appeared in the start menu, so now i have both pycharm versions lol