On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 12:17 AM Charles Brockman <c...@cbpwd.com> wrote:
> On 7/16/19 2:45 PM, Geertjan Wielenga wrote: > > The point of the symbolic link is to not create it in the /var/ > > folder but in /home/charles/somewhere, i.e., in your home directory. > > Okay, I have created a symlink: > > $ sudo ln -s /var/www /home/charles/netbeanslink > > ...which gives me: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jul 16 14:53 netbeanslink -> /var/www/ > > That works! I can now navigate to the source directory of my Website > inside NetBeans. I'll use the symlink method as a workaround. > Hurray. I wouldn't say it's a workaround though -- it's probably the best way to work, i.e., doing work in your var folder is probably not optimal. Gj > > > I'm on Ubuntu myself, when I open the /var/ folder in my Favorites > > window, one of the subolders I see below /var/ is 'spool', which for > > some reason you do not see. > > The /spool/ folder exists in my /var/ directory (as shown on an earlier > email) but is one of many that are not seen by NetBeans. > > > ...maybe there's something very specific about your system that's > > hard to identify, maybe NetBeans is set up in some very weird way > > that I've never heard of. > > There are several versions of NetBeans available. I happened to use the > Discover application installer in Kubuntu. I bypassed the available > version 10.0 and selected version 11.0 using Flatpak as the source. > (Version 11.0 is also available from Snap.) > > -- > Charles Brockman > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > >
