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The following nightlies and 7.3 (the last one below) do not install. This is on a clean install of Fedora 18 (on a VM) with jdk-1.7.0_17-fcs.i586 installed. The results I get are all the same (uncaught exception. See the shell session below. [root@il-1119-xp netbeans]# bash netbeans-trunk-nightly-201304042355-linux.sh Configuring the installer... Searching for JVM on the system... Extracting installation data... Running the installer wizard... Exception: java.lang.NullPointerException thrown from the UncaughtExceptionHandler in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" [root@il-1119-xp netbeans]# bash netbeans-trunk-nightly-201303192300-linux.sh Configuring the installer... Searching for JVM on the system... Extracting installation data... Running the installer wizard... Exception: java.lang.NullPointerException thrown from the UncaughtExceptionHandler in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" [root@il-1119-xp netbeans]# bash netbeans-trunk-nightly-201301110001-linux.sh Configuring the installer... Searching for JVM on the system... Extracting installation data... Running the installer wizard... Exception: java.lang.NullPointerException thrown from the UncaughtExceptionHandler in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" [root@il-1119-xp netbeans]# bash netbeans-trunk-nightly-201212090001-linux.sh Configuring the installer... Searching for JVM on the system... Extracting installation data... Running the installer wizard... Exception: java.lang.NullPointerException thrown from the UncaughtExceptionHandler in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" [root@il-1119-xp netbeans]# bash netbeans-7.3-linux.sh Configuring the installer... Searching for JVM on the system... Extracting installation data... Running the installer wizard... Exception: java.lang.NullPointerException thrown from the UncaughtExceptionHandler in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0"
All of the installers below work just fine on Fedora 16 with jdk-1.7.0_17-fcs.i586 installed.
Hello, the full installer log would be great - <user home>/.nbi/log/
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 228389 ***