Problems installing Pycharm

I am having the same issue. It looks like maybe you and I both have a minimal (headless) Java install on our systems. Use your system's method for finding installed packages and search for Java, and i'll bet you find only openjdk-headless

yum list installed | grep openjdk# or on debian-based systems# dpkg --get-selections | grep openjdk# =>java-1.7.0-openjdk-headless

Solution then is to install the same package without the "-headless" suffix.

Here's where I am getting my information for the solution: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177379

I had the same problem and as mentioned before the error was that openjdk was headless. What i did is i installed from the begining openjdk using the command apt-get install default-jdk (for ubuntu). I know it's not the best way to do it, however it is rather quick and simple.

If you have already all the prerequisites (such as Java) installed, try out charmy (PyCharm installer for Linux).

virtualenv charmy-envsource charmy-env/bin/activatepip install charmycharmy install

That will install PyCharm into your home directory. It will also simplify your feature PyCharm upgrades. To upgrade you would just have to type

charmy install

instead of downloading distribution manually, unpacking it, etc.

See https://pypi.python.org/pypi/charmy for more.