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I'm trying to run a fresh download of Netbeans 4.0 on FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE with the latest JDK 1.4.2p7. When I start netbeans, I get the following errors in a popup warning message: Warning - could not install module JPDA Debugger API - The package com.sun.jdi was not loaded or was an outdated version. Warning - could not install some modules: J2SE Projects - The module JPDA Debugger Ant Task would also be installed. JPDA Debugger Ant Task - None of the modules providing the capability org.netbeans.modules.debugger.jpda.ui could be installed. JPDA Debugger Ant Task - the module JPDA debugger API would also need to be installed. JPDA Debugger API - The package com.sun.jdi was not loaded or was an outdated version. JPDA Debugger UI - none of the modules providing the capability org.netbeans.api.debugger.jpda.JPDADebuggerEngineImpl could be installed. JPDA Debugger UI - the module JPDA debugger API would also need to be installed. JSP/Servlet Breakpoint Support - The module JPDA Debugger API would also need to be installed Tomcat 5 Server - The module JPDA Debugger API would also need to be installed. Web Projects - The module JPDA debugger API would also need to be installed. Due to these errors, I cannot open any project folders from netbeans, can't create new templates, and basically can't do anything.
You're most likely trying to start NetBeans on JRE. However, NetBeans needs a full JDK installation to start and dt.jar and tools.jar files must be present in the ${jdk.install}/lib directory. Make sure you have full JDK installed and the files are there. Then try to start NetBeans again with the -jdkhome option like this: ./netbeans -jdkhome <jdk-install-dir>
NetBeans should not be run on JRE -> WONTFIX.
Appreciate that! Not sure why it was running with the jre but specifying jdkhome worked.
Works - closing.