Ah great, thanks Michael, thats fantastic. I recently changed to JDK 17 (for Gradle) so good to know you can install and then change back up again.
Thanks a lot, appreciate that :thumbsup Jonathan ᐧ On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 11:04 PM Michael Bien <mbie...@gmail.com> wrote: > you should be able to install old plugins if you start NB on JDK 8 or 11 > since they still have pack200 support. > > after its installed you can start on JDK 17 again. > > you can change the path to the JDK in etc/netbeans.conf > > -mbien > > On 24.01.22 10:58, Jonathan Bergh wrote: > > hi, > > I was wondering whether anyone had any tips on how to solve the following > - I saw on the mailing list that someone (cant remember who) was using the > old NB 8.2 C/C++ plugin with one of the new Apache NB releases. > > I would like to do the same. > > I have configured the 8.2 plugin repo and clicked install on the C/C++ > module, which downloads, and partially installs, but then fails when trying > to "validate" the modules. There is an option to locate Unpack200 manually, > otherwise clicking OK appears to hang the install. > > Does anyone have any tips on how to get this plugin installed? > > Thanks a lot in advance > ᐧ > > >
