Upgraded to Netbeans 6.9.1 (on the EEEPC)

From time to time it happens I start dusting off the development environment on my EEEPC in order to start with some little new experiment. I so decided to upgrade Netbeans 6.8 there installed to the latest version 6.9.1.

Upgrading the JDK

As first step I decided, even if It's not strictly necessary, to upgrade to the latest JDK. I downloaded the self extracting archive from Oracle's download page and extracted it into the /opt directory:

chmod +x jdk-6u21-linux-i586.bin

mv jdk-6u21-linux-i586.bin /opt

sudo /opt/jdk-6u21-linux-i586.bin

As alternative JDK OpenJDK can be installed by a simple apt-get command:

sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk

Installing Netbeans 6.9.1

I downloaded Netbeans installation file from Netbeans.org download page then I executed it:

chmod +x netbeans-6.9.1-ml-javase-linux.sh

sudo ./netbeans-6.9.1-ml-javase-linux.sh

the installation program starts and it's only matter of agreeing with licences and clicking “next”.

First run

The first time I executed Netbeans it correctly recognized previous version (6.8) settings and installed plug-ins.

a import wizard starts and all previously installed plug-ins can be imported updated to the latest version.

Once Netbeans 6.9.1 has been properly installed and set-up I removed the previous version by executing its de-installation script:

sudo /usr/local/netbeans-6.8/uninstall.sh