I am glad it was solved and I would like to try to replicate that issue because I have installed NB on Linux, Windows, and macOS many times over the years but I don't recall seeing this. Of course if could be that out of habit I navigate to what I want to use as the default JDK. I tend to keep multiple versions on my machines for various reasons.
On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 8:55 AM Walter Oney <walter.o...@oneylaw.com> wrote: > Problem solved. The Apache Netbeans installer prompts for the location of > the JDK, with a default of "/usr". By supplying the correct path > (/usr/lib/jvm/<something>), I ended up with a working IDE. > > I know from long, hard experience how hard it is to write robust > installation programs. May I diffidently suggest that the Netbeans > installer needs to verify that a valid path is supplied in the answer to > that dialog? And that the library edit dialog permit the user to delete the > default library, so as not to require a delete (a superuser thing) and > reinstall.? Just sayin... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Walter Oney <walter.o...@oneylaw.com> > Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2019 8:32 AM > To: 'Carl Mosca' <carljmo...@gmail.com>; 'Geertjan Wielenga' < > geert...@apache.org> > Cc: 'Neil C Smith' <neilcsm...@apache.org>; 'NetBeans Mailing List' < > users@netbeans.apache.org> > Subject: RE: FW: screenshot > > From: Carl Mosca <carljmo...@gmail.com> > > > I have always been impressed with how extensive the tests (and > associated instructions) are so I would not be surprised if the answer is > yes. > > Given the age and pervasiveness of NetBeans, I would be surprised if the > elementary thing I've attempted was *not* covered by a standard test. What > I have observed, though, is that a brand new user attempts things that QA > wouldn't think of doing. It's likely that I've installed the wrong version > of something, or omitted to put something in the PATH, or omitted to set > the permissions on some directory, or something outlandish like that. > > Based on what I've reported so far, I think the problem has to be with > NetBeans and not with either Ant or Maven. A likely culprit would be the > JDK and, specifically, whatever calls NetBeans makes to Java-like things as > it's creating new projects. I don't recall specifically where I got the JDK > from, but I probably did a search within Firefox (using whatever Firefox's > default search engine is) and picked the top choice from among the search > results. > > All of a sudden, perhaps since I started trying to use Maven, NetBeans is > now listing the default library (JDK version 11) as a "broken platform". > The edit dialog is letting me add a different platform (the same one Ant > tells me to look in to find the java runtime), but it's not letting me > delete the broken one. Perhaps getting past this roadblock would lead to a > better outcome? > > -- > Walter C. Oney, Jr., Esq. > 267 Pearl Hill Rd., Fitchburg, MA 01420 > Tel.: 978-343-3390 > http://www.oneylaw.com > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > -- Carl J. Mosca
