netbeans installation error: can't initialize ui running in headless mode

Question

I\'m trying to install NetBeans on Linux Mint, and I\'m getting the following error every time I run the installation script:

Configuring the installer... Searching

Answer 1

Looks like Netbeans does not work properly with Openjdk. This is what I did (in Linux Mint 12):

sudo apt-get remove openjdk*
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

Then you will be able to run the .sh installer as usual.