I'm hoping someone can help me repair another of my noobish messes without my having to completely reinstall Ultimate. I wanted to install Netbeans and work on some javascript. The java website told me it couldn't detect java, so I downloaded a .bin file for the java JDK and ran it through terminal. Everything went great, so I downloaded Netbeans .bin file and ran that. The opening installation screen said there was no JDK available. I restarted, hoping java would then take effect...no such luck.
Ran through the java website for install instructions and went step by step a couple times...install and it doesn't work...remove...install and it doesn't work. Yeah. Finally I went to Synaptic Package Manager to look for other java IDEs and I found out I already had java installed through synaptic. Right there I figure I screwed something up by doing the manual install from the downloaded .bin. Marked it for reinstallation, it went fine, and this time when I tried netbeans it did NOT give me the missing JDK warning. YAY!
Netbeans installed about 75% before I started getting java errors. The java website still shows I have no working java installed. I was tempted to install netbeans through synaptic, but I think it partially installed from the bin and I'm thinking I need to completely scratch java and reinstall. Anybody have a "right way" to get java and netbeans working properly? Thanks in advance for any help! You'll be saving me the pain of pulling out my hair!