Technical notes, and other ideas.
1. Ubuntu needs to run in Virtual Box as a bridged network
2. Make sure you have SSH installed, it will automatically start
sudo apt-get install ssh
3. Use ifconfig to get the virtual machine's IP address
4. Use putty and SSH onto that machine or FileZilla
You can remove SSH by (did not disable)
sudo apt-get remove ssh
Start/Stop with:
sudo /etc/init.d/ssh stop
sudo /etc/init.d/ssh start
Use chmod to do the trick as follows:
chmod u+x script-name.sh
Ubuntu does not have a default open in terminal context, install the following to add "Open in Terminal"
sudo apt-get install nautilus-open-terminal
This will not take effect until you restart or do the following command:
nautilus -q
mkdir -p
Text Version of this post: Installing Netbeans on Ubuntu 12.04 in VirtualBox.txt
Downloaded the complete version of Netbeans for Linux
http://netbeans.org/downloads/7.1.1/
Ended up downloading this "netbeans-7.1.1-ml-linux.sh"
Tried to install but it complained that Java was not installed. It prompted with URL to use, followed URL to here:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
Downloaded the "jdk-7u5-linux-i586.tar.gz" version as opposed to the RPM version.
Found a Ubuntu help site with instructions on how to install:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/55848/how-do-i-install-oracle-java-jdk-7
Uncompress it
tar -xvf jdk-7u2-linux-i586.tar.gz
had to make a jvm directory (deviation from instructions)
sudo mkdir /usr/lib/jvm
JDK 7 package is extracted into ./jdk1.7.0_02 directory. - Now move the JDK 7 directory to /usr/lib
sudo mv ./jdk1.7.0_02 /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0
Ran the following three commands:
sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/java" "java" "/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0/bin/java" 1
sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/javac" "javac" "/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0/bin/javac" 1
sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/javaws" "javaws" "/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0/bin/javaws" 1
The article continued but that seemed enough to get this working, it seems like there would be issues if another JVM is installed. Refer to the article to change things.
Net beans was installed here by default and it launches by double-clicking the "netbeans" icon.
/home/mruckman/netbeans-7.1.1/bin
It has necessary to update the configuration file of NetBeans in order to see the menu selections, they did not play well with Ubunutu's layout:
gedit /home/mruckman/netbeans-7.1.1/etc/netbeans.conf
Add the following line, at the end of the line starting with netbeans_default_options=" and within the closing double-quote:
-J-Dswing.aatext=true -J-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd --laf Metal
gedit $(grep -ilr "search-string" *)
Hit [Ctrl]+[R] and then start type and it will find history that matches that string
Hit [Ctrl]+[R] again to cycle through your subset to find an entry
To disable the Global Menu, use the following Terminal command. Once done, log out or restart your system for changes to take effect.
sudo apt-get autoremove appmenu-gtk appmenu-gtk3 appmenu-qt
This process is completely revertible and the changes can be undone by re-installing the package from the below given command. Once the package is installed, restart your computer.
sudo apt-get install appmenu-gtk3 appmenu-gtk appmenu-qt
You will need to add your username to vboxusers group
open a terminal
sudo gedit /etc/group
vboxusers:x:125:mruckman
reboot Ubuntu to make sure it picks up the new changes
You will also want to install VBoxGuestAdditions_4.1.2
mount the ISO image inside the virtual appliance
You can download various versions of the software here:
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.1.2/
Turn off "Enable absolute pointing device" to have better response during shutdown and reboot.
When the virtual appliance is turned off, do the following:
Settings, System, uncheck the "Enable absolute pointing device"
No SSH - No No Machine
I've been using No Machine to remote into machines for quite a while now and all I can say is that I'll never go back to VNC.
I recently completely reinstalled my fileserver with Ubuntu 8.10 and installed the no machine server in the recommended way. I fired up the client and got a "connection refused on port 22".
It had been so long since I did a fresh installation of Ubuntu that I'd forgotten that Ubuntu ships with a SSH client but not the server. I found some useful info here.
To get your system up to speed all you need to do is:
sudo apt-get install openssh-server openssh-client
You can test it with:
ssh your_user@localhost
Now your system can frolic in its No Machine goodness!