Access Pycharm From Ubuntu

WSL working command

• To Check weather WSL is running in the computer we can check with command in ubuntu "$grep -qi Microsoft/proc/version".

• It gives the version of wsl installed in the system

To check we can trigger windows app in wsl

• type "notepad.exe" in terminal

• it should open the notepad in windows

If it works we can trigger pycharm or vscode by just adding path to wsl

• First copy the pycharm file location in the windows.

• usually it will be in the "C:\Program Files\JetBrains\PyCharm 2024.1.1\bin" location.

• to add it to specific user in ubuntu we can add below command in .bashrc file in home echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/mnt/c/Program Files/JetBrains/PyCharm 2024.1.1/bin"' >> ~/.bashrc.

• to add it to all users in ubuntu we add below command in /etc/profile(or)environment file.

• the command is export PATH="$PATH:/mnt/c/Program Files/JetBrains/PyCharm 2024.1.1/bin".