Chapter 1 ■ the Different faCes of Java: Create a Java 9 Development Workstation
To download one of these ZIP files, right-click on it, and use the Save As function, and save the ZIP file
in the location (directory/folder) on your hard disk drive that you want to unZIP (decompress) NetBeans 9
from. Notice that this is a different approach than an installer (.exe or .msi) will take, as an installer will put
the files into a Program Files folder, along with other installed applications, and will create a desktop icon
and Taskbar quick launch icon.
I was told that the Linux builds work under Windows as well, but at some point there may be separate
build versions for Mac OS/X, Linux and Windows. I also put a request into the developer list for an Ubuntu
LTS Linux 17 PPA repository to be set up, so that automatic updates to NetBeans 9.0 IDE can be done by
Ubuntu LTS with little end-user intervention needed. If you have not looked at Ubuntu LTS 17.10 or 18.04 yet
you might want to do that now; you will be amazed at how far Ubuntu Linux (Debian, the other major Linux
distribution is Fedora) has come relative to OSX or Windows.
Once you unzip NetBeans 9 (I named my folder NetBeans-9-Build) go into the /bin (binary) folder, and
right-click on netbeans64.exe, and use Run as Administrator. After the startup branding screen and load
progress bar, you will get a Licensing Agreement dialog, which you will have to accept (agree to) in order to
launch the IDE software.
Figure 1-14. Click a version to get a build page, shown is builds.apache.org/job/incubator-netbeans-
linux/74/