./phpstorm.sh For a terrifying second, nothing happened. Then, the splash screen appeared—a red, glowing "PS" against a dark grid. Leo smiled. The IDE was waking up.
He clicked Download . The progress bar filled. Click . The file landed in his ~/Downloads folder. install phpstorm on ubuntu
He opened a new terminal tab and installed ln -s magic: The IDE was waking up
sudo ln -s ~/apps/PhpStorm-*/bin/phpstorm.sh /usr/local/bin/phpstorm Now, he could just type phpstorm in any terminal. But he wanted the GUI icon. He clicked Tools > Create Command-line Launcher inside PhpStorm itself. Checked the box. Clicked OK . ./phpstorm.sh For a terrifying second
He skipped the theme selection for now (Dracula, obviously, but later). He activated his license using his JetBrains account. Then came the magic: he pointed PhpStorm to his project folder, /var/www/html/legacy-code .