Ubuntu – netbeans not all requested modules can be enabled

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I know this question has already been posted, but the solutions provided don't work for me.
I added the webupd8team/java repository and installed oracle-java8-installer and oracle-java8-set-default.
I downloaded netbeans 8.1 from netbeans.org (full version), installed it but when it comes to enabling the java modules it fails, showing me a list of all the modules netbeans can't enable.

I also ran sudo update-alternatives --config java, which outputs

  0            /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/bin/java   1         auto mode
* 1            /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/bin/java   1         manual mode

JDK seems to be missing.

I get the correct output when I run both java -version and javac -version

I also tried to run the command netbeans --jdkhome /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle, unsuccessfully. I get an error message saying netbeans is not installed.

Now, all this only happens with the version I download from the website. When I install netbeans from the shell (sudo apt-get install netbeans) everything works just fine.

The thing is I need the full version from the website, because I'm working with HTML5, CSS, J2EE and GlassFish server support.

All help is appreciated.

Best Answer

Go to /etc and open netbeans.conf.

Note: you can find netbeans_root_folder with ls -l $(which netbeans)

Make sure the variable netbeans_jdkhome has the correct value, something like:

netbeans_jdkhome="/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle"

To Answer the question

The answers and some comments focus on how to set JAVA_HOME to version 11 but the question is partly about "where is version 8 being set?". To answer that see:

`grep`ing all files for a string takes a long time

Use this command:

$ sudo grep -rnw --exclude-dir={boot,dev,lib,media,mnt,proc,root,run,sys,/tmp,tmpfs,var} '/' -e '/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle' | grep JAVA_HOME

/etc/profile.d/jdk.sh:4:export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle
/etc/profile.d/jdk.csh:4:setenv JAVA_HOME /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle
/home/rick/.gradle/daemon/4.6/daemon-14831.out.log:53:20:45:23.553 [DEBUG] (... SNIP ...) /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/db/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/bin (... SNIP ...) Configuring env variables: {PATH=/home/rick/bin:/home/rick/.local/bin:/mnt/e/bin:/mnt/e/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/db/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/bin,  (... SNIP ...)

This is what my system returns. Yours will likely be different. To make a long story short the culprit is /etc/profile.d/jdk.sh:

$ cat /etc/profile.d/jdk.sh

setenv J2SDKDIR /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle
setenv J2REDIR /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre
setenv PATH ${PATH}:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/db/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/bin
setenv JAVA_HOME /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle
setenv DERBY_HOME /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/db

You probably surmise /etc/profile.d/jdk.csh needs changing too. Indeed it contains the exact same contents as /etc/profile.d/jdk.sh

To address the XY problem

There is a better way than going through files line by line and changing an 8 to an 11.

The easiest method is using Java installer. From this Ask Ubuntu Q&A: Setting JDK 7 as default

To get a list of your installed Java platforms, run the following command from the terminal:

sudo update-alternatives --config java

This will give you a list output similar to this:

There are 2 choices for the alternative java (providing /usr/bin/java).
   Selection    Path                                           Priority   Status
  ------------------------------------------------------------
  0            /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-oracle/jre/bin/java         1070      auto mode
  1            /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386/jre/bin/java   1051      manual mode
* 2            /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-i386/jre/bin/java   1069      manual mode
Press enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number:

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