I have downloaded PyCharm Professional as per the instructions at https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/requirements-installation-and-launching.html#linux
Upon trying to start pycharm (. pycharm.sh) I get the error in the subject of this post.
I have manually created vmoptions file as per instructions at https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/206544869-Configuring-JVM-options-and-platform-properties but I'm getting the same error. I've tried it with every possible variation of the name of the vmoptions file:
- pycharm.vmoptions
- pycharm64.vmoptions
- pycharm.exe.vmoptions
- pycharm64.exe.vmoptions
Still the same error occurs.
This is what gets displayed in the terminal:
$ ll *.vmo*
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 329 Jul 29 15:48 pycharm64.exe.vmoptions
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 329 Jul 29 16:09 pycharm64.vmoptions
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 337 Jul 29 15:51 pycharm.exe.vmoptions
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 337 Jul 29 16:09 pycharm.vmoptions
$ . pycharm.sh
bash: alias egrep='egrep --color=auto'
/usr/bin/egrep: No such file or directory
Gtk-Message: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged.
And here's the dialog with the error message:
Any advice on how to diagnose this please? I should point out I'm a bit of a linux noob so may need the proverbial idiot's guide to fixing it.