Just installed Netbeans 6.7.1 (MAC O/S 10.4.11) - but it won't OPEN - help!

[Lani Jacobson]

Not much more to say. Can anyone help me? System Requirements for Netbeans 6.7.1 says that you can run it under MAC O/S 10.4.11 although higher levels are advisable. Is it possible that my MAC O/S must be upgraded before I can OPEN Netbeans 6.7.1? Thanks for letting me know if you are running it under MAC O/S 10.4.11

By the way - when I double-click to OPEN the Netbeans Application Icon -- the Icon responds to my request by displaying an "application opening" animation --- but then nothing happens!

[Mark Wade]

Not much to go on. Netbeans keeps logs that may shed some light at:

~/.netbeans/6.7/var/log/messages.log

also you might try launching Netbeans from Terminal. You'll have to:

cd "Applications/Netbeans/NetBeans 6.7.1.app/Contents/Resources/
NetBeans/bin"

(quotes are needed because of the space. Your path should be similar.)

then:

./netbeans

You might get some output to the terminal showing what is wrong.

On Dec 1, 2009, at 8:35 PM, Lani Jacobson wrote:

[Petr Dvorak]

This also depends on what Java version you use - NetBeans are written in
Java - you need at least JRE5...

--pd

Mark Wade wrote:

[yukio]

Subject:
RE: [nbusers] Netbeans 5.5 on Mac OS X -SOLVED

From:
hoff...@comcast.net (hoff...@comcast.net)
Date:
May 29, 2007 2:04:02 pm
List:
org.netbeans.nbusers
Hey,
I solved the problem. After a lot of searching on the internet I cam across
this sniplet:

The reason for this is that LWP will install /usr/bin/HEAD, and because HFS Plus
is a case-insensitive file system, it’ll overwrite /usr/bin/head! This is a
pretty significant issue, since many configure scripts use /usr/bin/head.

and sure enough my version of head came from the LWP library (I use CPAN a lot
with perl) and the netbeans shell script uses the head command (see error
message). You can test this by running 'head -help' if the correct version of
head is installed it should show one command line arg (-n argument). if it show
a bunch of command line args then you have the wrong version of head.
I copied the orignal version of head from the install cd:

sudo cp "/Volumes/Mac OS X Install Disc 1/usr/bin/head" /usr/bin/

and then netbeans 5.5.1 started up find.

Jon
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: hoff...@comcast.net
I am using version 10.4.9
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Peter Blemel" <pble...@hotmail.com>

What version of OSX are you using?

From: hoff...@comcast.net
Reply-To: nbus...@netbeans.org
To: nbus...@netbeans.org
Subject: [nbusers] Netbeans 5.5 on Mac OS X
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 01:38:11 +0000

Hello,
I have tried to run netbeans 5.5 and 5.5.1 on Mac OS x but it does not
start. I have looked in the console log have have the following error:
Unknown option: n
Usage: head [-options] <url>...
-m <method> use method for the request (default is 'HEAD')
-f make request even if head believes method is illegal
-b <base> Use the specified URL as base
-t <timeout> Set timeout value
-i <time> Set the If-Modified-Since header on the request
-c <conttype> use this content-type for POST, PUT, CHECKIN
-a Use text mode for content I/O
-p <proxyurl> use this as a proxy
-P don't load proxy settings from environment
-H <header> send this HTTP header (you can specify several)

-u Display method and URL before any response
-U Display request headers (implies -u)
-s Display response status code
-S Display response status chain
-e Display response headers
-d Do not display content
-o <format> Process HTML content in various ways

-v Show program version
-h Print this message

-x Extra debugging output
: : No such file or directory

Any idea what I need to do to run netbeans on Mac OS x.
Thank you for any hlep you can provide with this problem.
Thanks

Jon