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Native Linux Packages

The hotest problem these days is something triggered by Java going Open Source under GPL variant - as such an implementation of Java that is compatible enough to run NetBeans is going to be available on all Linux distributions. Hopefully Java will then be more accepted by the Linux developer community and will become a language in which more and more core Unix applications is written. In such case there will be a huge demand for an appropriate IDE to do such development. The opportunity is huge and NetBeans could try to become the IDE of choice for this new wave of Java developers. However there is one blocker - this community of users is used to install components just thru their own distribution native packages (dpkg, apt-get, rpm, urpmi, yum, yast, etc.) and they are unlikely to accept ZIP download or Windows like installer. That is why the goal is to provide packages for NetBeans IDE and its components and make them appear in the standard package repositories for most common Linux distributions.

There is been a work to NetBeans Packages for Ubuntu for release55, which made it to the multiverse repository. For 6.0 the goal is higher, we want to get to ubuntu's universe, as well to debian, jpackage-free, etc. In contrast to 5.5 we can achieve this goal, major components - JDK, javac, javahelp have or will be open sourced and as such we can really build on full open source stack - which is the precondition to be included in these repositories.

To observe this work, see the follow up in the NativeLinuxPackages page.