Netbeans 8.1 IDE exits unexpectedly on Ubuntu 17.04

Question

I am using Ubuntu 17.04 as my OS. I want to install and use Netbeans as my php editor. So I have tried sudo apt install netbeans and Netbeans 8.1 is now installed on my system.

But as I try to open it, it gets closed just after trying to open. Even using sudo command (sudo netbeans) or not (as normal user).

I have tested to run app from terminal but no errors outputted (as can be seen in above image).

Update

The message.log that is asked in comment is this:

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------------------------------------------------------------------------------- java.lang.SecurityException: setContextClassLoader at java.base/jdk.internal.misc.InnocuousThread.setContextClassLoader(InnocuousThread.java:104) at org.netbeans.ModuleManager.updateContextClassLoaders(Unknown Source) at org.netbeans.ModuleManager.(Unknown Source) at org.netbeans.core.startup.ModuleSystem.(Unknown Source) at org.netbeans.core.startup.Main.getModuleSystem(Unknown Source) INFO [null]: Last record repeated again. at org.netbeans.core.startup.Main.start(Unknown Source) at org.netbeans.core.startup.TopThreadGroup.run(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:844)

Screen Shot:

According to this bug report it seems that, this issue is fixed on netbeans 8.2 but by now it is not available. Any idea?

Answer 1

You combo is not supported.

You are using Java 9 with NetBeans 8.1. That won't fly.

First of all: Why use an old version of NetBeans. Why not use NetBeans 8.2?

Secondly: Using Java 9 as the runtime for executing NetBeans will not be supported until NetBeans 9.x is released.

Solution:

• Use Java 8, not Java 9. You can use a private copy of Java only for NetBeans, if you don't want to change you system's overall Java. This is done by setting netbeans_jdkhome variable in /usr/share/netbeans/8.x/etc/netbeans.conf file.

• Use NetBeans 8.2 (just because it is always best to use the latest. NB 8.1 was released in Oct 2015, almost 2 years ago, while NB 8.2 was released last October).

If you still have problems after this then please post here.