On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Louis wrote: > Hi, can anyone offer some advice please? > > I've been running netbeans 6.5 beta on my OpenSolaris b101 machine, no > problems. > > Now that Netbeans 6.5 release proper is out, I'm trying to install it, with > no luck as yet. > > Firstly, taking the .sh version from the netbeans site, chmodding +x it, set > my display variable as localhost:0.0 and run it -> results in it starting the > installation but stopping on this line: > > #Running the installer wizard.... > > So, failing that, looking in the package system I was surprised to find 6.5 > already in there! I notice both netbeans packages and SUNWnetbeans packages - > not clear on the difference(?) but installing both say SUNWnetbeans-ide and > netbeans-ide (which both report to be version 6.5) seems to install ok, but > no shortcut or links are created and I can't find them anywhere?!? > > Also, I'm having trouble getting "Developer Tools" appearing in the > application main menu using the menu editor, I've enabled it, it's got things > in it (like netbeans 6.1 and 6.5 beta) but now it refuses to show up (whereas > other changes take effect immediately) - Is this part currently broken? > > I've posted on the netbeans 6.5 mailing list but no luck so far. Anyone got > this working ok? If so, what am I doing wrong?
Your best bet is to pursue this on the netbeans mailing list since that's where people more familiar with that product are likely to be listening. This list is mostly for the Solaris install related technologies. Alok
