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NetBeans 6.1 on Fedora 9

With the introduction of OpenJDK in Fedora 9 (one of the best thing that could happen to Fedora if you ask me), you now have an easy access to the infinite power of a great IDE: NetBeans. Until now, I still used Windows a lot because of specific software like Enterprise Architect, Office 2007 (colleagues who don’t want to switch to OOo) or NetBeans; now that the latter works almost out of the box with Fedora 9, I can reduce my Windows usage by 1/3 :)

To install NetBeans, you need to install the openjdk-devel package first; yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel should resolve your problems. Then simply head to http://www.netbeans.org and grab the edition you need...done.

Note that since version 6.1, you can’t simply install the PHP plugin on other editions than “NetBeans IDE Early Access for PHP” to highlight your PHP code. If you wonder, all editions can be installed in parallel and will register correctly in the Gnome Applications/Programming menu. Fedora 9 is definitively a huge step forward.

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7 Responses to “NetBeans 6.1 on Fedora 9”

  1. surkum Says:
    May 15th, 2008 at 10:42 pm

    Give a try to EA under wine, it works great for me ;)

    greets

  2. M-Z Says:
    May 16th, 2008 at 9:27 am

    Well, Netbeans does not look native on your screenshot. On Windows, it does...

  3. Luis Medina Says:
    May 16th, 2008 at 5:28 pm

    Netbeans always works in fedora, but before OpenJDK you had to install sun jdk

  4. Alexander Says:
    May 17th, 2008 at 1:59 pm

    Hi,
    netbeans 6 is even gonna be in the fedora repos, real soon now.
    I think the info is in the podcast on this page: http://blogs.sun.com/barton808/entry/openjdk_and_icedtea_a_view

    To make netbeans use the GTK look you can try the following command line switch, when starting nb:
    --laf com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel

  5. M-Z Says:
    May 17th, 2008 at 4:09 pm

    “To make netbeans use the GTK look you can try the following command line switch, when starting nb:
    –laf com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel”

    Well, for me it should be set by default...

  6. Andy Burns Says:
    May 17th, 2008 at 6:13 pm

    @M-Z

    Setting the L&F didn’t work for me, does openJDK support GTKLookAndFeel, or is sunJDK required for that?

  7. deman Says:
    May 28th, 2008 at 2:13 pm

    @Andy,

    I had the same problem of L&F initially in F9 with openJDK -- now found the solution. You can refer http://codersifu.blogspot.com/2008/05/netbeans-61-look-and-feel-issue-in.html
    Maybe the way you pass the parameter is not correct.

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