how to remove pycharm-professional from ubuntu 16.04

Question

I install pycharm-professional after downloaded from here,

I choose Professional not Community

then used ./pycharm.sh

I would like to remove it completely

Answer 1

Remove the unpacked sources. Relevant docs https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/uninstall.html?section=Linux#standalone

Answer 2

For my Ubuntu 20.04 machine it took quite a few steps to completely remove the Professional and also the Community version. Here's what I had to do

First follow the official uninstallation guide -

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/uninstall.html?section=Linux

Which tells you to remove the following directories:

Syntax

~/.config/JetBrains/<product><version>
~/.cache/JetBrains/<product><version>

I did that, but it was not completely removing as I could launch PyCharm again from the Desktop Menu

So then I ran

sudo find / -name *PyCharm*

It may take 3 to 4 minutes to finish the searching process and and output the result in the Terminal.

Then for me gave the following kind of output

/home/<user-name>/.local/share/JetBrains/PyCharm2020.1
/home/<user-name>/.local/share/JetBrains/PyCharmCE2020.1
/home/<user-name>/snap/snap-store/common/.cache/gnome-software/icons/e5454464646
646ee7fa5a196e1707d9e47107ee-PyCharmCore256.png
/home/<user-name>/snap/snap-store/common/.cache/gnome-software/icons/188057e734443468686446890ec081e0eaafe8f4e88-PyCharmEdu256.png

I manually deleted all of the above files and folders.

Even after this, still I could launch PyCharm from menu. So I did search for "pycharm" in my /usr/shar/ directory and the search result found the following file.

/usr/share/applications/jetbrains-pycharm.desktop

The above file contained the configurations to launch PyCharm by referring to the correct launch file from my previously downloaded PyCharm file. And the above jetbrains-pycharm.desktop file gets created when from withing PyCharm you do

Tools > Create Desktop Entry...

The content of this file would be similar to below containing the full path of the pycharm.sh file to launch PyCharm (this ofcourse will be different for you depending on the location of your downloaded .tar file from PyCharm's website ) -

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=PyCharm Professional Edition
Icon=/home/<user-name>/Downloads/pycharm-professional-2020.1.3/pycharm-2020.1.3/bin/pycharm.svg
Exec="/home/<user-name>/Downloads/pycharm-professional-2020.1.3/pycharm-2020.1.3/bin/pycharm.sh" %f
Comment=Python IDE for Professional Developers
Categories=Development;IDE;
Terminal=false
StartupWMClass=jetbrains-pycharm

So I manually deleted the above file

After the above step, PyCharm Professional was no more coming in the launch menu , but still PyCharm Community Edition was coming in the launch menu.

So in the very root directory "/" I did a regular search with Ctrl + Find for the term ‘charm’ and got a search result for /snap/pycharm-community

But you can NOT delete this file (/snap/pycharm-community) normally even after opening the directory with sudo access with $sudo natilus

So to remove this file you have to do

sudo snap remove pycharm-community

as per - https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/uninstall.html#snap

And now finally I could fully uninstall PyCharm from my Ubuntu 20.04 machine.