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I have upgraded my Ubuntu installation to 8.04 (release candidate). Previously Ubuntu has been using GCJ as the default Java, which had many problems. On 8.04 when I tried:

java -version

I got:

java version "1.6.0"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0-b09)
OpenJDK Server VM (build 1.6.0-b09, mixed mode)

Very cool. Now what about NetBeans? I tried:

netbeans

And the response was:

The program 'netbeans' is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install netbeans

So I tried:

sudo apt-get install netbeans

In previous versions of Ubuntu I would have to go install NetBeans manually but this time a little miracle happened:

[sudo] password for roman:
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And then running:

netbeans

opened version 6.0.1 of my favorite IDE (the Java-only version of it) :)

Note that NetBeans is in the Universe which needs to be checked in the package manager. I didn't have to do this because I already got downloaded some packages from the Universe before. Also, the packages are split into pieces - there is one package for the platform, one for the beans binding, etc.

Opening the package manager and searching for NetBeans yields to:

Getting Java and NetBeans used to be complicated on Ubuntu in the past but now both packages are really well integrated and easily accessible.