Fixing netbeans in ubuntu

Netbeans has some issues in Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04.  One of the most serious is that javascript syntax highlighting does not work.  Another is that Rails 3 applications do not run or debug correctly.  I found the solution to be going to “Tools – Plugins -Settings” and enabling the “Netbeans” update center.  Then by going to “Updates” and clicking “Reload Catalog” I got an update for the update system.  After that was installed an netbeans was restarted I got a lot more updates for plugins (15 or so).  Once updated everything seemed to work as it should.

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  1. If this still doesn’t work, you might try to associate .js files manuall with javascript. To do this, go to Tools – Options – Files and change the filetype associated with .js to ‘text/javascript’. Fixed my problem (the solution above didn’t).

  2. If this still doesn’t work, you might try to associate .js files manuall with javascript. To do this, go to Tools – Options – Files and change the filetype associated with .js to ‘text/javascript’. Fixed my problem (the solution above didn’t).

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