Why Is Netbeans Not In The Repositories?

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Hi folks. I just tried to install Netbeans through YaST And found that a few components of Netbeans are in the repositories, but the actual IDE itself is not. The Apache foundation took stewardship of Netbeans a while ago, didn’t it? Has some licensing change during the transition to the Apache foundation meant that Netbeans can’t be included in the repositories? Henk said that I should just wait for the Packman and Nvidia repositories to be added to 15.2 so that I can install the video codecs and my GPU driver. Is it likely that Netbeans will be in the Packman repositories for similar reasons that the video codecs are, or should I be looking to download, install and keep it up-to-date manually?

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Here’s another means to an end…
https://snapcraft.io/install/netbeans/opensuse

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Hm?

karl@erlangen:~> netbeans
snap-confine has elevated permissions and is not confined but should be. Refusing to continue to avoid permission escalation attacks: Operation not permitted
karl@erlangen:~>
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For me, IDE like NetBeans or Eclipse is always better to install manually, not via package manager. And not only on openSUSE, but almost on all distros.