How to Install PhpStorm on CentOS 8

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Install PhpStorm on CentOS 8
PhpStorm is an intelligent and fully-featured IDE for PHP developed by JetBrains. It also provides support for Javascript, Typescript, and CSS, etc. You can also extend PhpStorm features by using plugins. By using PhpStorm plugins you can also get support for frameworks like Laravel, CodeIgniter. We can also use PhpStrom for other programming languages like HTML, SQL, Javascript, CSS and more. In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to install PhpStorm on CentOS 8.
Prerequisites
Before you start to install PhpStorm on CentOS 8. You must have the non-root user account on your system with sudo privileges.
Install PhpStorm
First, we will download PhpStorm using the official PhpStorm download page using wget command. At the time writing this tutorial, the current latest version available is 2018.3.2
. You can check latest version for installation if you want.
sudo wget https://download-cf.jetbrains.com/webide/PhpStorm-2018.3.2.tar.gz
Now extract the downloaded package using the following command.
tar -xvf PhpStorm-2018.3.2.tar.gz
Navigate inside the extracted directory.
cd PhpStorm-2018.3.2
Now to run PhpStorm like normal programs you should create a symbolic link using the following command.
sudo ln -s ./PhpStorm-2018.3.2/bin/phpstorm.sh /usr/bin/phpstorm
Start PhpStorm
You can launch PhpStorm using the following command.
phpstorm
On starting PhpStorm first time you will be asked to import settings. If you have settings from the older version then you can import or select “Do not import settings”.

You will get the following output after accepting the license and setting up the initial configuration.

Conclusion
You have successfully learned how to install PhpStorm on CentOS 8. If you have any queries regarding this then please don’t forget to comment below.
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