Installing netbeans on Linux

NetBeans 6.5 IDE

NetBeans is one of the best integrated development environment (IDE) for developing with Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Groovy, C, C++, Scala, Clojure, as well as object oriented modeling and designs. It is open source and freely available IDE. It comes in a shell package on the internet. Many times we get confused about the installation of NetBeans for Linux OS.

In order to install Java oriented NetBeans, we must have installed JVM on our computer. Following are the steps to install offline NetBeans on the Linux system:

To install NetBeans IDE:

1.  Download the IDE setup file (extension .sh) from http://netbeans.org/downloads/

2.   Open the terminal and navigate to the directory that contains the installer file with .sh extention.

3.   Change the installer file's permissions to make the binary executable by typing from a command prompt:

        $ chmod +x executable_shell_file_name

        This will make your executable_shell_file_name executable. By

typing ‘ ls –a ‘ command, you can check the rwx permissions of the

file.

4.   Launch the installer by typing:

        $ ./executable_shell_file_name

5.   The installer searches for installed JDKs and prompts you to specify which the installer should use. You can also specify which JDK the installer should use from the command line. For example:

  $ ./ executable_shell_file_name -is:javahome path_to_your_jdk

6.   The installer will ask the directory to install. Choose it and press next.

  

Launching NetBeans IDE

To start the IDE:

    Navigate to the bin subdirectory of your installation.

    Execute the launcher script by typing ./netbeans.   

Depending on the Linux distro that you are using, you can find the installed file in the ‘applications’.