Is there a way to install the PyCharm IDE (community version) from a repo (without wget).
I think the wget method found in many blogs is too complicated.
There is a third-party packaged .DEB:
Here
But the simplest way would be to use Ubuntu Make utility. It is in the repos in recent versions. Then just run
umake ide pycharm
It will ask a few questions and install recent ide for you. Will not manage autoupdates.
Have you tried downloading it from their website?
https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/download/
If wget is too complicated, I doubt using git clone is going to be any easier.