JETSON NANO & PYCHARM

1766876122 · June 4, 2019, 3:22am

HI GUY:
I have a question that i want to install pycharm in jetson nano ,but faild … so is there anyone have experiences ? looking forward to reply.

mdegans · June 5, 2019, 3:34pm

It won’t be possible unless JetBrains rebuilds it for arm as it is not open source. You can check and see if JetBrains provides a package. I use PyCharm on a daily basis and love it but I doubt it would perform very well on the nano. It does many things in the background like indexing that would have to be turned off to avoid grinding the system to a halt. You may prefer a lighter weight ide like vs code (there are instructions on the form on building it), or even vim with syntax highlighting on.

It was open sourced, apparently.

jglathe · June 7, 2019, 9:48pm

Hi there, I have it running. PyCharm CE, that is. The „only“ issue that I had was that fsnotifier is not natively supported, and won‘t be started from the application. So I had to patch IDEA to do so: native fsNotifier: try to use a rule-based filename as alternative for ex. aarch64 by jglathe · Pull Request #1140 · JetBrains/intellij-community · GitHub If you need a binary install package, I can put this somewhere on google drive or so.

jglathe · June 8, 2019, 8:10am

For those who want to try it:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/jglathe/027ce234a786ec0a705718aa2648fa22

fsnotifier-linux-aarch64.gist

This is my how-to on getting PyCharm-CE or IDEA to run on a Jetson Nano. Tested with PyCharm-CE 2019.1 Build 191.7479

The linux install package runs on a jetson nano, but with some performance impact:

1. There is no native fsnotifier for linux-aarch64 in the package, and it won't be selected by the application if it would 
be there.
2. inotify configuration is missing/not sufficient for PyCharm. Install https://gist.github.com/bittner/c7d1d49fe0c9af907f24 

To get a native fsnotifier, you need to compile it from source, and you need to convince the application to select and start it.
This is currently implemented in https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/pull/1140. As long as it is not yet integrated

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IDEA CE 191.7479 witch aarch64 fsnotifier: ideaIC-191.SNAPSHOT.tar.gz - Google Drive
PyCharm CE 191.7479 with aarch64 fsnotifier: pycharmPC-191.SNAPSHOT.tar.gz - Google Drive

bebetteryou2015 · September 21, 2019, 11:48am

Install apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk, then download PyCharm from official website, after extracting go to the PyCharm’s folder, then to bin folder, then ./pycharm.sh

Goodluck.

djhnsn043 · January 16, 2021, 7:48am

I have pycharm installed on my jetson2gb. I forget where I found the information on how to do it, but luckily I made a text document for when I go do install in on my 4gb.

Here are the contents of the text file.

Go to Download PyCharm: Python IDE for Professional Developers by JetBrains

download the linux community version

in the downloads folder on your pi extract the files by right clicking on it and choosing extract here

open terminal press ctrl+alt+t

Type: cd Downloads then press enter

Type: ls then press enter

you should see pycharm-community-2019.2.2

or something similar to that.

Type: sudo mv pycharm-community-2019.2.2 /opt/pycharm-community-2019.2.2 then press enter

Type: cd /opt/pycharm-community-2019.2.2/bin then press enter

Type: ./pycharm.sh then press enter

All you have to do is:

Start PyCharm.

To create a desktop shortcut:

From the Tools menu, select “Create Desktop Entry…”
Tick the corresponding box if you want the launcher for all users.
If you selected “Create entry for all users”, you will be asked for your password.
A green message bubble should appear informing you that it was successful.
You should then be able to find PyCharm in the Unity Dash or pin it to the launcher.

zasxstuff · January 17, 2021, 12:23am

I would only add the installation of java JDK and restart the jetson before installing the desired IDE.
So, the complete step-by-step would be:

Download the desired IDE IDEA CE 191.7479 or PyCharm CE 191.7479
Install the java JDK with

sudo apt install openjdk-8-jdk -y

Reboot the jetson with

sudo reboot

After reboot go to the folder where you downloaded the IDE and run the installer. For instance for PyCharm:

pycharm-community-2019.1.3/bin/./pycharm.sh #No sudo required here

After this you can pretty much run pycharm repeating step 4. Or you can create an alias to call pycharm from anywhere or a desktop shortcut as described by @djhnsn043.

holdendp · April 20, 2021, 11:43pm

Is there a way to get the professional version to run? I was able to get the CE version using these instructions but I get:

Error: A JNI error has occurred, please check your installation and try again
Exception in thread “main” java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/intellij/idea/Main has been compiled by a more recent version of the Java Runtime (class file version 55.0), this version of the Java Runtime only recognizes class file versions up to 52.0