Re: Ubuntu Linux, I can't start a new project, I think my installation is messed up.
Kai Ponte <kai <at> perfectreign.com>
2007-09-01 01:48:22 GMT
On Friday 31 August 2007 06:22, Azat Akhmetov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> (Skip to the link if you don't feel like reading)
>
> I installed Ubuntu (Feisty Fawn 7.04) on this computer recently, then
> accidentally installed NetBeans 5.5.1 (from the downloaded binary) without
> installing the jdk first.
That should be fine. However you'd need to do some configurations....
> I must have had jre already because when I tried
> launching it an error message told me I probably used jre instead of jdk. I
> figured I'd uninstall NetBeans, install the bundle and fix it, only I
> couldn't figure out how to uninstall. It wouldn't show up in synaptic (Or
> under Applications -> Programming), I found some instructions telling me to
> run _uninst/uninstall.bin but the closest files were uninstall.dat,
> uninstall.jar and "uninstaller". The two I couldn't figure out how to run,
> and "uninstaller" did nothing. So I gave up and decided to just install the
> bundle over it.
Again this shouldn't be a problem, except....
>
> The bundle of course complained the directory was already in use, so I went
> to my home folder and deleted the netbeans directory.
...you probably have a folder under your home folder:
~/.netbeans
You need to delete that.
> The bundle installed
> then, only now when I double clicked the desktop icon nothing would happen.
It probably is failing. Try launching from the command line. You can type
simply netbeans and it should launch.
> NetBeans under Applications -> Programming wouldn't visibly do anything
> either (But at least it showed up now). I still couldn't find it under
> synaptic, so I tried running _uninst/uninstaller and this time it did work,
> removing the netbeans directory from my home folder. I don't know what else
> it did though.
>
> I then ran the NetBeans installer, not the bundle since I already had jdk
> now, and it installed fine. Then I ran it, that went well too. Only when I
> tried to start a project, this is what I got:
> http://img475.imageshack.us/img475/6994/screenshotwr0.png
>
Not sure what is wrong with that picture.
> Now my guess is that all the improper reinstalls mucked things up and now I
> have traces from previous installs preventing a correct installation, I
> couldn't find anything on Google, the FAQ or the #netbeans (as of right
> now), so right now I'd be perfectly fine with just wiping all traces of
> NetBeans (and the jdk and jre if they might have anything to do with it)
> then installing it all over again, only I'm a bit new to Linux and I don't
> know how to do that short of reinstalling Ubuntu.
Heh - Can you open a netbeans project?
There's no reason to re-install Ubuntu. Keep it up and you'll be doing fine.
I personally use SUSE but will try to help you out.
>
> Any help I'd greatly appreciate.
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kai ponte
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