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