Paul, Have a look at https://askubuntu.com/questions/854373/how-to-create-a-desktop-shortcut
I use this to create a shortcut to open NetBeans on Ubuntu form the desktop Regards John On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 at 23:38, Paul Szudzik <pszud...@throwarock.com> wrote: > Thank you . That did work. I am running on Java10 now, with Netbeans > 9.0. > > * netbeans_jdkhome="/usr/lib/jvm/java-10-oracle"* > > It still would be nice to have an installer, I still don’t have an > icon to click on... I am a pretty good USER on Linux, but not very good > INSTALLER type. > > It didn’t ask me if I wanted to bring any settings over from previous > versions ( Which was 8.2 ) but being Linux, figured it couldn’t find it’s > way. > > So, I am happy for now.. but a DEB variant would make life a lot > easier for a lot of people.. > > Thanks again. > > *From:* Mohammad Nabil > *Sent:* Thursday, August 09, 2018 2:52 PM > *To:* Paul Szudzik > *Cc:* us...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org > *Subject:* Re: NetBeans 9.0 on Linux - How?? > > netbeans/etc/netbeans.conf > uncomment > #netneans_jdkdhome=/path/to/jdk > and set path to your os java_home/bin/java > Run > netbeans/bin/netbeans > > On Thu, Aug 9, 2018, 11:43 PM Paul Szudzik <pszud...@throwarock.com> > wrote: > >> Maybe I missed something, but I don’t see an installer to install >> NetBeans 9.0 on Linux. That is my OS in the shop, ( Ubuntu ). >> >> Are there plans to do it soon? >> >> Thanks >> >> >
