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nfortier

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Registered: 2011-09-18

Posts: 49

Netbeans 9.0-3 plugins fail to install fully

I upgraded netbeans from 8.2 to 9.0-1 on 2018-10-22, then installed the nb-javac library plugin, as well as the groovy and gradle plugins, and everything seemed to work correctly (eg my gradle-based projects were recognized by netbeans).

When I upgraded from 9.0-1 to 9.0-3 today those plugins were no longer installed. I tried to install nb-javac library plugin; the plugin seems to download correctly (message: "The Netbeans IDE Installer has succesfully installed the following plugin"), however if I click on "Restart IDE now", netbeans closes but does not restart; if I start netbeans manually, the nb-javac plugin shows up as not installed in the IDE plugin manager; however ~/.netbeans/9.0/modules/ext/ does contain nb-javac-api.jar and nb-javac-impl.jar, and ~/.netbeans/9.0/modules contains the groovy and gradle plugins (all from 2018-10-22).

I also note that upon starting netbeans 9.0-3 for the first time, it asked if I wanted to import 8.2 settings, as if there was no existing 9.0 installation present (yet netbeans 9.0-1 was working).

Also, pacman log re: upgrade of 8.2 to 9.0-1 says "[ALPM] warning: /usr/share/netbeans/etc/netbeans.conf saved as /usr/share/netbeans/etc/netbeans.conf.pacsave" but that latter file is timestamped 2016-10-10; the 9.0-1 netbeans.conf (date 2018-10-22) is in /usr/lib/netbeans/etc (btw the Arch wiki about netbeans still says /usr/share/netbeans/etc). I modified netbeans.conf to devote more memory to netbeans, and put that modified file in ~/.netbeans/9.0/etc/ as per wiki, but netbeans 9.0-3 does not seem to use it (it does not seem to use the additional memory).

lordnaikon

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Registered: 2014-09-30

Posts: 34

Re: Netbeans 9.0-3 plugins fail to install fully

I am having the same problems, not only that. After Netbeans asked to import plugins from the previous version my Desktop is crashing (Gnome wayland – screens goes black and i am on the login) after Netbeans restarts and having problems with the plugins asking to deactivate them. A click on "disable modules and continue" immediately crashes gnome https://i.imgur.com/8Rlgdsr.png

EDIT: click on exit does the same
EDIT2: i also have no ~/.netbeans/9.x folder where i could manually disable modules – where is the netbeans 9 folder?
EDIT3: i uninstalled community/netbans 9.0-3 and installed aur/apache-netbeans 9.0-6 and everything looks good now.

Last edited by lordnaikon (2018-10-31 09:19:42)

traviscthall

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Registered: 2014-04-14

Posts: 15

Re: Netbeans 9.0-3 plugins fail to install fully

I'm having the same troubles.  I'm used to running Eclipse but I'm using Netbeans for the first time for a class.  I'll try the aur version and hopefully that helps me.

hoschi

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From: Ulm (Germany)

Registered: 2008-11-03

Posts: 476

Re: Netbeans 9.0-3 plugins fail to install fully

Apache Incubator seems to be a phrase at Oracle for abandoned stuff? I cannot blame Archlinux for this:
NetBeans 9 gives me a bad impression, just nothing works. Some things due to ugly bugs like that the broken native L&F for Gtk3 with Java 11 (no visible checkboxes, tabs barley visible...). Other through NetBeans itself, the import from NetBeans 8 completely fails, nothing.

Last edited by hoschi (2018-11-12 11:08:11)

nfortier

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Registered: 2011-09-18

Posts: 49

Re: Netbeans 9.0-3 plugins fail to install fully

I disagree. The netbeans package in community (at least 9.0-3) is broken, non-functional (see above posts). After I switched to the AUR version I noticed the community version (9.0-3) had created directories in strange places, eg netigso under ~. The apache netbeans package from the AUR is functional. Hard to blame Apache for that... I for one am not going back to the community version until I hear a credible explanation of what happened there and that it's been fixed.

I've met the same problem as you in that nb 8 settings regarding java code formatting did not get imported.

Note that jdk 11 support is scheduled for Netbeans 10:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/dis … %3A+JDK+11