I am working on a simple Django app using PyCharm community edition, python 3.9 and ubuntu 20.04. The project's virtual environment is in folder [project root]/venv/
When I start the app from the pycharm terminal window I execute the following commands and everything works fine (no import errors):
source ./venv/bin/activate
python manage.py runserver
When I start the app from the IDE running configuration, I get an ImportError: libmysqlclient.so.20: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
Given that the project runs via the terminal, I believe that my python installation and my virtual environment are ok. I guess that this should not happen if the IDE run/debug configuration was using the same virtual environment hosted in [project root]/venv/. Therefore, I suppose the run/debug configuration is not correctly configured, or there is something missing in my paths. I have checked other posts but I could not find a solution.
The following screenshots depict my run/debug configuration and the setup of my virtual environment in the PyCharm IDE (also showing the respective packages).
Could somebody please guide me?
Is there a way to confirm that my run debug configuration uses the same virtual environment as the one used via the terminal? Is there a setting in PyCharm IDE that I should check for? Do I miss something fundamental about how do python virtual environments work?