netbeans on 12.1 KDE

jvlog · November 17, 2011, 1:31am

Alright, im kinda a linux noob. been running 11/4 gnome for a few months and was able to run the linux script from orical to get netbeans to install and run just fine. switched to 12.1 KDE to try my hand at that ui and found that the same script dose not run. it appears that dosent wat to open a GUI that it calls for. i also tried installing from YaST with no luck. yast says it is sucssfuly installed but i cant run it. this is what the script returns
.

justin@linux-qjb8:~/Downloads> sudo sh jdk-6u29-nb-7_0_1-linux-ml.sh 
root's password:
Configuring the installer...
Searching for JVM on the system...
Preparing bundled JVM ...
Extracting installation data...
Running the installer wizard...
Can`t initialize UI
Running in headless mode
No X11 DISPLAY variable was set, but this program performed an operation which requires it.

any ideas, am i missing something obvious?

martin_helm · November 17, 2011, 1:56am

Am 17.11.2011 01:36, schrieb jvlog:
> justin@linux-qjb8:~/Downloads> sudo sh jdk-6u29-nb-7_0_1-linux-ml.sh
Do not use sudo for this if you need a gui for the installer.
Instead use


su -
cd /the/path/where/the/installer/is
sh jdk-6u29-nb-7_0_1-linux-ml.sh

The - (minus) after the su is essential here to have a correct
environment for root which allows execution of a gui.

jvlog · November 17, 2011, 2:54am

thanks for the help, strangely it only has the last bit about the gui after using sudo
when ever i use ./ in bash or the sh shell ether as my user or the super user it ends after “running the installer wizard” but without the gui portion that it typical tries to open when running this script never opening and the software never installing

sofyandean · November 19, 2011, 2:40am

using kdesu not sudo

sofyandean · November 19, 2011, 9:23am

CMIIW,
I just understand, kdesu = su and “su-” like sudo

martin_helm · November 19, 2011, 4:19pm

Am 19.11.2011 09:26, schrieb sofyandean:
>
> sofyandean;2406022 Wrote:
>> using kdesu not sudo
>
> CMIIW,
> I just understand, kdesu = su and “su-” like sudo
>
>
Nope, kdesu and “su -” are equivalent with only one difference, “su -”
will ask you for the root password on the command line while kdesu opens
a graphical password dialog to enter the root password. None of both is
equivalent to sudo.