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Installing a 3rd Party Plugin

Doc Contributor: Cydey

Introduction

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Installing a 3rd party plugin is very simple but this tutorial is meant to make it even simpler.

Downloading the Netbeans Plugin

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• Visit the link http://plugins.netbeans.org/ which is a Plugin Portal for Netbeans Module.

Browse to the requisite page

• Click the download link to download the module as a .nbm file. A pop-up window would open up asking for where to download. You can create a separate folder which would contain all the netbeans modules you wish to install.

Choose where to download

Installing the Netbeans Plugin

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1. Open the Netbeans IDE. (Netbeans 6.0 used in the images) 2. On the Menu Bar choose Tools and further choose the 2nd last option Plugins from the submenu.

Plugin Manager

3. The Plugin manager by default opens up the Update Tab; change the tab to Downloaded.

Plugin Manager (after changing tab)

4. Click the Add Plugins button; A window pops up; navigate to the directory where you downloaded the plugin and add it. It shows up as visible in the figure. 5. Click the install button on the Bottom-left corner of the window.

Install the Plugin

6. A confirmation window pops up; click Next to continue the installation. 7. Next you need to read the license agreement and accept it. The plugin is licensed under CDDL.

Accrpt the licence agreement

8. Since the plugin would be designed by a 3rd party developer it would not be digitally signed and you would need to ignore and continue inspite of the Validation Warning if you are confirmed about the source of the plugin.

Ignore the Warning

9. The plugin would install automatically; Once the installation is finished the window would show an option to restart the IDE. Please do so to complete the installation.

Restart to complete Installation

Thus, we have completed the installation of the Plugin and it can be used with the IDE.

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