Installing NetBeans 7 on Ubuntu 11.10

Install the prerequisites via the command line:

Note: This will take a while and you will have to respond yes ("y") to the questions.

Then download Netbeans from their site and run the installer. We use the PHP only version.

Note: the installer will probably be located in /home/[username]/Downloads. To run you may need to cd to the Downloads directory, change the permissions using the chmod command, and then run with "./[installer_name]".

http://netbeans.org/downloads/index.html

Git plugin. Install it from within netbeans: Tools -> Plugins

(Same as http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/37577/git-versioning-system-support )

http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/ide/git.html

Netbeans on Mac using Apache running on an Ubuntu VM

[OLD NOTES: I ended up going with an all-on-Ubuntu approach, so these directions are not complete.]

On Linux:

$ sudo vi /etc/php5/conf.d/xdebug.ini

zend_extension=/usr/lib/php5/20090626+lfs/xdebug.so
xdebug.remote_enable = 1
xdebug.remote_host = 172.16.214.1

On Mac OS X, to get the :

$ ifconfig
vmnet8: flags=8863 mtu 1500
    ether 00:50:56:c0:00:08 
    inet 172.16.214.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.16.214.255