I created another user and deleted the quickstart user.... and lo and behold Netbeans was gone. It turns out it's installed in /home/quickstart/netbeans-6.9.

I would think it would be better to get 6.8 from the regular repo... or a newer one from another repo. But at the least, it should be installed in /usr/local/bin or /var/local/bin or something like that, rather than in the user's directory.

Again, thanks for all the great work on this. It's so nice to have such a good project to recommend to people. I've been teaching Drupal development to eager students all week and so many are so glad to have this as an option.

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MichaelCole commented

Hi Rfay,

That's awesome it's getting used! I released 0.7 a little "raw" because I wanted to get it out and didn't think anyone was using it. Glad you're finding it useful. Where are you teaching?

I downloaded 6.9 from the website cause it had some extra cool in it. Maybe 6.8 would work just as well. Ubuntu doesn't update the packages except every 6 months, which is a bit long to wait for new features. The Netbeans installer puts it in the user's directory - although I agree that's not the best place to put it.

Do you know of a repository with the most recent build? I looked briefly, but didn't find one.

I've always had in mind the "quickstart" user would be present. What was the motivation to delete him?

Glad you and your students are finding Quickstart useful - go open source :-)

Mike

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Hi Michael - I was teaching the Lullabot Deep Dive module development class. There were people who already knew about Quickstart (one guy had it on his flash drive and gave it to another class member) and others knew about it. And I recommended it highly, especially Windows users, who have such a hard time getting a sane environment.

I always use the same username, rfay, and the same junk password on local installs. That's why I created a new user. It was also a good test of whether the system was set up in a proper way :-) It is Unix after all. At least it's my opinion that it shouldn't be made to work some way that doesn't work like a regular old Unix system.

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MichaelCole commented

Hi rfay,

If you delete the user "quickstart", it's no longer Drupal Quickstart. It's something else :-)

Netbeans 6.9 brought alot to the table over 6.8. The Ubuntu 10.04 repository has only 6.8, although 6.9 is in the works for Ubuntu 10.10.

I couldn't find a reliable repository for Netbeans 6.9, so for the moment, it's best (easiest) to use the installer from netbeans.org which put's it in the users home directory.

Once 10.10 is released next month, I'll re-roll the whole image, which will use 6.9 from the repository.

Anyways, good idea, and interesting use of the project.

Cheers,

Mike

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