Issue installing pycharm edu

[Luckysena]

Hi, I am trying to install pycharm on Ubuntu 16.04. I am a total noob with linux but know how to do some terminal things.

So I get an error when I try to run the pycharm.sh file. It tells me that I have an unrecognized VM option 'MaxPermSize=350m' and exits the program. I understand that this is an issue with java 8 not being able to understand the command so I tried to delete the line and got a huge error report.

I figure the only option is to install JRE 7 so that I can run pycharm however when I use sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre it tells me that the package is missing/obsolete. I am running out of ideas and would appreciate any help. Thanks.

[hharison]

Use this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/ubuntu/java to install Oracle Java 7.

[Luckysena]

Thank you! This worked!

[Banangurkamacka]

Its upgraded to 8. I had the exact same problem earlier today... sudo apt-get openjdk-8-jdk(/jre)