Well, technically the runtime requirement of the IDE is to have a JRE.
It shall be enough if you are working on PHP, HTML or C++ projects.
JDK is required for the Java stuff. What I'm planning is to get a Snap
distribution free from Apache and provide specific distribution packages
for php, java(fx), javaee, maybe separate html and c++ all these with
JRE/JDK + JavaFX included... Somewhere along the road...
On 8/31/20 5:09 PM, Peter Blemel wrote:
Hello World,
I recently installed Apache Netbeans on several Ubuntu Linux machines. In each
case, the IDE couldn't create or open projects and would stall at about 10%
progress. As a long-time Netbeans user, this was perplexing - especially given
that I have a working Netbeans on one of them (the others were fresh installs).
From the IDE logs, I finally figured out that Netbeans didn't think that I had
a JDK installed.
In one case it was right. The Ubuntu distro installs the JRE by default, but
not the JDK - and neither the installer or the IDE itself prompts the user when
it can't find the JDK. It's happy to install from a JRE and silently fail
later. In the other cases, I took the default without thinking during
installation.
It's a face-palm moment for me, but I'm no stranger to "operator error" moments at the
end of the day. To someone who may be trying out the Netbeans IDE and makes the same mistake, it
could make them walk away from Netbeans to another IDE. A dialog box saying "Where's yer
JDK?" would be useful.
I'm really enjoying Netbeans 12, by the way. So far it hasn't given me any
grief and is fast and stable.
Regards,
Peter
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