This Bugzilla instance is a read-only archive of historic NetBeans bug reports. To report a bug in NetBeans please follow the project's instructions for reporting issues.
[ BUILD # : 201204100400 ] [ JDK VERSION : 1.7 ] Today I started the Update of this IDE from user account. IMO, Updater should warn about missing privileges to IDE's install dir and either should suggest to start the updates from administrator account or ask for Administrator privileges via RunAs functionality.
It's intention. If there is no write permission to installation, all update have to go to userdir. Plugin Manager could notify users about that fact but it's an question of UI team how to communicate it.
Btw. in case of core's bootstrap or startup and other fixed modules I'm going to show a notification in that case - see issue 211777.
I still think, this is a defect! If Updatemanager says something like "NetBeans IDE successfully updated", then the IDE should be truly updated. Current behaviour is only a custom user patch.
I would agree that PM should never install a module specifying targetcluster into the userdir without prompting the user and explaining the possible implications - that the new module or update will not be available to other users; that some modules may not work correctly this way (but perhaps that part is covered by bug #211777).