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Laszlo Kishalmi resolved NETBEANS-1800.
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Resolution: Information Provided
Fix Version/s: 10.0
> Locked out of plugin installation due to netbeans requiring admin rights and
> wayland conflicting with running netbeans as root
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> Key: NETBEANS-1800
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-1800
> Project: NetBeans
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: platform - Plugin Manager
> Affects Versions: 9.0
> Environment: Antergos Linux 4.19.8-arch1, x86_64, Gnome/wayland (also
> affects all other known linux distros on gnome/wayland)
> Reporter: Brian Dayhoff
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 10.0
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> On any linux distro running gnome/wayland, the typical tools to run a visual
> application as root (eg gksu, gksudo) do not work. Netbeans 9 requires
> installation of some plugins to be run as administrator (eg the JIRA plugin
> to interface with this board). There is no possible way to make this work on
> such systems. Using `sudo -H netbeans` and `sudo -E -H netbeans` will run the
> program, but then netbeans does not detect the original user or already
> configured settings. Reinstalling plugins from here does not propogate back
> to the standard user runtime.
> None of the following work due to various errors:
> * `sudo netbeans` - program fails with an exception
> * `gksu netbeans` - wayland prevents entering password, cannot proceed
> * `gksudo netbeans` - wayland prevents entering password, cannot proceed
> * `sudo -H netbeans` runs, but does not detect existing configuration, and
> breaks user runtime if reconfigured
> * `sudo -E -H netbeans` also runs, does not detect configuration, breaks
> user runtime if reconfigured
> To the best of my knowledge, wayland is the primary bottleneck here, however
> it is unlikely that a fix will be issued on their end, as it is a core
> principle of wayland not to allow visual programs to run as root and they
> will not patch this. As wayland is becoming the standard window manager for
> numerous linux distros, this needs to be accounted for, and this restriction
> needs to be either loosened, provided with a workaround internally, or
> removed.
> Several systems prevent running on XOrg due to underlying package conflicts,
> which leads to this issue being unsolvable at the user level, whether or not
> they have root access privileges.
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