Tutorial - PyCharm Installation and build project environment for the development of Ryu controller
What is PyCharm?
Are you developing python project on Ubuntu right now? When you are writing code, I guess that you edit file by vi, vim or 'gedit'. Maybe these tools are convenient to you, but those are inefficient and hard to maintain program for the development of big projet.
PyCharm is one of the most popular Python IDEs. It provides code analysis, a graphical debugger, an integrated unit tester, integration with version control systems (VCSes), and supports web development with Django as well as data science with Anaconda.
And, it is cross-platform, compatible with Windows, macOS and Linux versions. Also, it supports both Python 2 (2.7) and Python 3 (3.5 and above) versions.
Installation
Step 1. Download the PyCharm to your Ubuntu system
Step 2. Unpack the pycharm-*.tar.gz file (The recommended installation location according to the filesystem hierarchy standard (FHS) is /opt.)
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$ sudo tar xfz pycharm-*.tar.gz -C /opt/
Step 3. Go to the bin subdirectory
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$ cd /opt/pycharm-*/bin
Step 4. Run pycharm.sh from the bin subdirectory
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$ ./pycharm.sh
Step 5. Choose “Do not import settings” as below:
Step 6. Select the user interface theme
Step 7. Download and install additional pyugins
Step 8. Start a project in PyCharm
Debug Ryu SDN controller
Step 1. First, build a new project. Then, create a python file (compile file)
Step 2. Paste the code as below: (Notice: you must set your directory of controller.py)
Step 3. Create a controller.py (You can paste the source code of simple_switch_13.py to controller.py)
Step 4. Change a project interpreter 3.4 to 2.7 version (File->settings->Project->Project Interpreter)
Step 5. Finally, debugging the controller.py and get currect result
