This page explains how to install and run netbeans from linux using the afs file system.
You will need the following:
- Netbeans
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- v5.5,
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- either
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- installed
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- locally,
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- or
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- you
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- can
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- check
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- if
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- it's
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- installed
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- on
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- one
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- of
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- the
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- system
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- disks.
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- The
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- unix
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- command
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- '
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- which
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- netbeans'
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- will
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- show
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- if
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- it
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- is
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- installed
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- in
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- afs.
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- Maven
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- plugin
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- from
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- .
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- Under
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- 'Install
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- Mevenide'
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- click
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- 'Download
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- this
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- small
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- autoupdate
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- module'
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- (you
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- need
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- this
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- plugin
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- even
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- if
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- '
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- which
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- maven
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- '
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- shows
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- that
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- maven
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- is
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- installed
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- on
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- the
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- system
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- disk).
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- If
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- you
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- see
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- a
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- bunch
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- of
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- gibberish
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- when
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- you
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- click
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- on
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- 'autoupdate
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- module'
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- then
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- right
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- click
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- on
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- it
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- and
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- "save
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- link
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- as"
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- into
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- your
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- netbeans
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- directory.
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- Adequate
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- afs
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- disk
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- space
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- that
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- is
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- read
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- and
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- write
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- by
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- your
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- account.
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- 1 Gb memory,
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- less
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- memory
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- still
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- works
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- but
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- at
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- a
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- very
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- slow
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- pace.
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- Global
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- environment
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- variable
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- $MAVEN_HOME
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- set
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- properly
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- in
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- the
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- .cshrc
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- file.
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- I
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- used
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- $MAVEN_
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- HOME =
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- /afs/slac.stanford.edu/package/java/common/contrib/maven-1.0.2/
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- URL
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- for
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- instructions
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- on
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- how
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- to
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- install
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- Maven
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- plugin
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- and
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- download
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- netbeans.
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- This
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- page
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- contains
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- screenshots
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- for
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- the
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- various
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- installation
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- steps.
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- Oracle
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- driver,
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- ojdbc14.jar.
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- You
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- may
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- be
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- prompted
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- to
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- logon
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- to
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- Oracle
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- in
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- order
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- to
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- download
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- this
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- file.
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- If
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- that
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- happens,
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- and
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- you
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- don't
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- have
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- an
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- Oracle
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- account,
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- contact
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- Tony
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- Johnson.
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- Save
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- the
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- file
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- in
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- your
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- ./netbeans/.netbeans/5.5/apache-tomcat-5.5.17_base/common/lib
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- directory.
- If you modify the catalina.policy file, restart the tomcat server.
Checking out a project:
Once you have netbeans and maven, with the plugin, installed you can check out a project from CVS.