Anaconda Navigator throws error when trying to start PyCharm

Product Help Anaconda & Miniconda
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Repro:

  1. Install and start Anaconda Navigator on MacBook M1 Pro
  2. Start Anaconda Navigator
  3. On “Home” tab, click “Launch” for PyCharm Professional
  4. Anaconda Navigator throws the error below and PyCharm does NOT start

Has anybody seen this? Any way to fix this?

Thanks,

Dan.

p.s. Anaconda is supposed to be an easy-to-use environment that removes most of the BS with setting up a MacOS development setup. My experience has been the exact opposite.

2022-03-24 18:11:43.975 pycharm[1837:20352] allVms required 1.8*,1.8+
2022-03-24 18:11:43.978 pycharm[1837:20443] Cannot load JVM bundle: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=3585 “dlopen_preflight(/Applications/PyCharm.app/Contents/jbr/Contents/MacOS/libjli.dylib) => false, tried: ‘/Applications/PyCharm.app/Contents/jbr/Contents/MacOS/libjli.dylib’ (mach-o file, but is an incompatible architecture (have ‘arm64’, need ‘x86_64’)), ‘/usr/lib/libjli.dylib’ (no such file)” UserInfo={NSLocalizedFailureReason=The bundle doesn’t contain a version for the current architecture., NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion=Try installing a universal version of the bundle., NSFilePath=/Applications/PyCharm.app/Contents/jbr/Contents/MacOS/libjli.dylib, NSDebugDescription=dlopen_preflight(/Applications/PyCharm.app/Contents/jbr/Contents/MacOS/libjli.dylib) => false, tried: ‘/Applications/PyCharm.app/Contents/jbr/Contents/MacOS/libjli.dylib’ (mach-o file, but is an incompatible architecture (have ‘arm64’, need ‘x86_64’)), ‘/usr/lib/libjli.dylib’ (no such file), NSBundlePath=/Applications/PyCharm.app/Contents/jbr, NSLocalizedDescription=The bundle “OpenJDK 11.0.14.1” couldn’t be loaded because it doesn’t contain a version for the current architecture.}

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Hi Dan,
Thanks for the post and I’m sorry to hear things aren’t working as they should. This sounds a bit like an issue with which PyCharm installer used and which Java it expects. There’s a similar issue posted in the Jetbrains community for another Jetbrains product, where the fix was to use the MacOS Intel installer vs. the Apple Silicon/aarch64 installer.

Just to gather some more information, which PyCharm installer did you use? intel or Apple silicon? For reference, it looks like the installer filename ends in aarch64.dmg for the Apple silicon installer.

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I had the same error message today. The answer to this is to just ignore the step of starting PyCharm from the Anaconda.Navigator. However, follow all of the rest of the steps in this tutorial https://freelearning.anaconda.cloud/get-started-with-anaconda/18381 on how to Create a simple Python program in PyCharm. The only thing that the Anaconda.Navigator is giving us here is starting Pycharm. It is meaningless to us though, because it does not work right now with the Apple chip.

My chip is the Apple M1
download from pycharm is .dmg (Apple silicon) the *aarch64.dmg file.

However, the error message is because we’re not using the Intel installation of pycharm which would match the intel chip.

You can still use Conda with pycharm though, you just can’t use the Anaconda.Navigator and that isn’t that important. It is just a dashboard for launching what could be launched in other ways and in our case it is broken for our application (PyCharm with Apple chip).