I installed pycharm normally via bin/pycharm.sh
, but the mistake I made was doing bash pycharm.sh
while the pycharm directory has inside the D
you can always use python for automation may be this will help you a python script that allows u to run pycharm as user or sudoers/root
import os
from time import sleep
sleep(1)
program = input('which program to run: >')
if program == "pycharm":
os.chdir('#full path to pycharm paste here')
root = input('run as root(y/n): >')
if root == 'y':
print('started ' + program + ' as root')
sleep(0.5)
print('please enter root password to continue:')
os.system('sudo ./pycharm.sh')
elif root == 'n':
print('running ' + program + ' as non root')
os.system('./pycharm.sh')
elif program != 'pycharm':
print('program not found')