Installing Netbeans 6.5 on Linux – Ubuntu

Note: Recently released Ubuntu 9.04 has NetBeans 6.5 in its repositories. Read how to install it in Update – Installing NetBeans 6.5 on Ubuntu 9.04.

Another note: This article is also available in Spanish: Como instalar NetBeans en Ubuntu

NetBeans 6.5 is just out. There is a Linux installer for it and I will show in few steps how it works:

To download installation, click here:

http://services.netbeans.org/bouncer/index.php?product=netbeans-6.5-java&os=linux

To ensure that download was successfull and that archive is not tampered with, you can calculate md5 checksum and compare the value with one from the NetBeans’ website:

md5sum netbeans-6.5-ml-java-linux.sh

To make downloaded archive executable open shell and in the directory where the file is type:

chmod +x netbeans-6.5-ml-java-linux.sh

and after that execute it:

./netbeans-6.5-ml-java-linux.sh