Problem installing Netbeans

[rracasanu]

Hello,

I have tried to install the latest Netbeans 5.5 on a Fedore Core 5 x86_64. I have tried to install it both as root and as a regular user. However, both attempts failed. The output of the install script is:

Initializing InstallShield Wizard........
Extracting Installation Archive.

After the last line the install script ends without doing anything (even upacking some files).

Does anyone know if there is a workaround to install Netbeans or if there are any dependencies that it failed to check for, and that prevents the installer from working?

Thank you for any answers

[gamradtk]

NetBeans 5.5 is Beta and requires JDK 1.5.0 or higher... (you probably already knew that though)

I have never personally tried any NetBeans version on x86_64

[treak007]

i had a very similar problem a while ago. The wizard freezes because it cant find the jdk. Make sure you set the path when you run the install file. The last line of the netbeans official installation instructions tells u how. Thats what i did and it worked for me afterwards. It should look something like this:

$ ./your_executable_file -is:javahome path_to_jdk_file

Hope that helps

[rracasanu]

I have indeed the lates version of the JDK 1.5.0_7 and I have also tried to specify the path to the JDK both as a parameter to the installer and exporting it into the path. However, none of them seem to work.

Thank you for your answeres though.

[treak007]

Are you installing as r00t or as a superuser?

[rracasanu]

I have tried both as a regular user and as root. Not a superuser account but root exactly.

While googleing, I have found this issue http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=77609 that seems to be almost identical to what I experience.

Running

./netbeans-5_5-beta-linux.bin -is:log a.log

and examining the log gave the following results:

Log file created by MultiPlatform installer @Mon Jun 19 19:52:20 EEST 2006
INSTALLER_PATH=/root/kit/./netbeans-5_5-beta-linux.bin
Checking the environment variables specifed in the JVM files to find the JVM...
Verifying... /usr/bin/java  -cp  /tmp/istemp17186170195220/Verify.jar Verify  java.vendor java.specification.version
Verification passed for /usr/ using the JVM file /tmp/istemp17186170195220/jdk15unix_sun.jvm.
-cp:p operand is empty
-cp:a operand is empty
checking disk space on the parition /tmp/istemp17186170195220 for /tmp/istemp17186170195220/setup.jar
84389 512 bytes disk blocks required.
132341800 512 bytes disk blocks  available on the partition /tmp/istemp17186170195220
Disk space check on the parition /tmp/istemp17186170195220 succeeded.
Extracted Installer JAR archive file size incorrect. archive may be corrupt. Failed to launch the application.
Launch Script can't not be resolved. Run the installer with -is:log <logfile> to view the errors.

so it seems that either there is an error with the embeded archive or it has been corrupted in the download.

As a workaround I have managed to install the Java EE SDK bundled with NetBeans 5.5 and that worked OK. At least for me this is a solution since I was going to use Java EE SDK anyway .

[rracasanu]

Indeed, this is my fault. I have never experienced this before so I haven't checked the file if it has been corrupted during download. The checksum of my file was wrong, and on a second download it worked.

Sorry for wasting your time on such a stupid matter.

[treak007]

no problem, glad its working for you