Installing user apps

[Verde Denim]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Mark Nichols <ubuntu at zanshin.net> wrote:

> On 05/13/2009 02:39 PM, Verde Denim wrote:
> >
> > Yes, I am talking about installing NB in Ubuntu. The difference is that
> > the version I found in the Ubuntu repo is 6.1 and I need 6.5 .
>
> Why not use sudo apt-get install netbeans to let it install where it
> wants, and then update it from within the application? (Coming from the
> Mac OS X world, where ever application (nearly) has a "Check for
> Updates..." menu option, this makes sense to me, but I'm not sure that
> Netbeans provides that ability.)
>
> Baring that, I put stuff like that in /opt. Have only just started this
> practice so I don't know if there are any long term gotchas I haven't
> discovered yet.
>
> Mark


So far, the only odd symptom I notice is that under the latest install, the
plugins already installed are 'read-only'. I'm not sure if this is an app
feature or a product of the fact that it was installed as sudo... I'm
checking that now.

Jack

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