René Samselnig's Weblog » netbeans http://sdm-net.org Personal Entertainment and Knowledge Management Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:08:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Bringing NetBeans to life on Ubuntu http://sdm-net.org/2006/01/bringing-netbeans-to-life-on-ubuntu/ http://sdm-net.org/2006/01/bringing-netbeans-to-life-on-ubuntu/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2006 19:43:59 +0000 René Samselnig http://www.sdm-net.org/2006/01/bringing-netbeans-to-life-on-ubuntu/ If you’re a developer and might want to use NetBeans as your favourite IDE – here’s how to do it. This is not a detailed description on what might go wrong – but it’s a start. And it’s how I brought it to life myself. Downloading Netbeans Go to the NetBeans Download Section. From the [...]

]]> If you’re a developer and might want to use NetBeans as your favourite IDE – here’s how to do it. This is not a detailed description on what might go wrong – but it’s a start. And it’s how I brought it to life myself.

Downloading Netbeans

Go to the NetBeans Download Section. From the dropdown list choose Linux. Then choose next.

Installing

You will have to have a Java SDK already installed to use (and at least install) Netbeans. David Coldrick has a blog at blogs.sun.com where he discusses the issue of installing Java under Ubuntu Linux.

Once you have Java up and running you can continue installing NetBeans. With a terminal go to the folder you’ve downloaded the NetBeans installation file to. Now export the JAVA_HOME variable to point to the Java home directory.

cd /path/to/downloaded/netbeans/installer/ export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun/

You’ll get a strange error if JAVA_HOME isn’t set to the right directory (The wizard cannot continue because of the following error: could not load wizard specified in /wizard.inf (104)). But nothing happens – don’t be afraid honey, it’s only an error message.

The next you’ll have to do is make the binary file executable. Don’t worry if you don’t know how to do that – I’ll show you:

chmod +x nb-4_1-linux.bin

Change nb-4_1-linux.bin to the filename you just downloaded. Now you’re able to start the installer:

./nb-4_1-linux.bin

Once running it’s going to be easy to install NetBeans. Just follow the instructions given. The defaults are quite okay. The only thing I changed was the installation directory – I changed it to /home/sandman/software/netbeans-4.1/, it’s up to you.

Using NetBeans

Once installed you can open the NetBeans IDE by executing the following commands:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun/ /path/to/netbeans/bin/netbeans

If you don’t want to start NetBeans that way (and you really don’t want to start it that way all the time) then add the following lines at the end of your ~/.bashrc file:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun/ alias netbeans=’/path/to/netbeans/bin/netbeans’

Note: The ~/.bashrc file is included every time you start a terminal. This way the JAVA_HOME variable is always exported and an alias for netbeans is being set – now you only have to type netbeans to open up the IDE. No more hurt/broken fingers when starting netbeans!

Further Reading

Congratulations if you made it this far! I know this is no complete guide with error recovery and support hotline. But if you think you got stuck or if you’d like to have more detailed answers I’ll give you some hyperlinks to got to.

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