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Setup Subversion (SVN) Server in Ubuntu 12.04

1. Install Subversion
sudo apt-get install subversion libapache2-svn apache2

2. Where you want to keep repository?
sudo mkdir /svn
sudo gedit /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dav_svn.conf

Delete everything and make it this instead:

<Location /svn>
DAV svn
SVNParentPath /svn
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Subversion Repository"
AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd
Require valid-user
</Location>

3. Create a user
sudo htpasswd -cm /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd username

4. Setup first repository
cd /svn
sudo svnadmin create test

5. Make sure you have all of the proper permissions for the repository
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /svn

6. Restart Apache service
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

7. You are now ready to use TortoiseSVN for Windows or RapidSVN for Linux

8. Your repository URL is http://localhost/svn/test
Note: It looks like RapidSVN does not like spaces in its file names.

Please see PDF for original notes.

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Ubuntu SSH Steps

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

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Installing Netbeans on Ubuntu 12.04 VirtualBox

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

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Looking at Linux history

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

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How to Disable Global Menu in Ubuntu 11.10

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

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Installation of VirtualBox in Ubuntu 11.10

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"