Re: macOS installer doesn't seem to work

Thanks!

So, yes, it upgraded in place. That’s confusing though since the package named "Apache NetBeans 21.app” is now version 26. I don’t remember for sure, but I guess I added the version number to the name since I was keeping multiple versions around. Maybe I don’t need to do that anymore…

> On Jun 26, 2025, at 05:04, Neil C Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 at 20:57, Philip Wasson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I’m trying to get back into development and figured I’d start with an up-to-date environment. I downloaded the NetBeans 26 community installer for aarch64 and ran it. It said it finished, but I can’t find NetBeans 26 anywhere. Spotlight doesn’t find “NetBeans 26”. The most recent version I have installed is NetBeans 21. I know the installer is supposed to include a JDK, but I saw comments that implied an earlier version needed an already-installer JDK for the installer to work. I have JDK 21.0.5 (Temurin) installed, and it is what is used when I e.g. enter “java —version” on the command line. (I’m assuming it won’t hurt that I have a bunch of older JDKs installed too.) Any ideas?
> 
> If the installer completed, the most likely thing is that you no
> longer have NetBeans 21.  Since NetBeans 19 the installer has done
> in-place upgrading.  Up until the latest release, the community
> installer used a different bundle ID to the ASF installer, but from
> NetBeans 26 it uses the same bundle ID that the older ASF installer
> used.  So it should end up overwriting the previously installed
> version.
> 
> The macOS installer uses the bundle ID to track if you've moved or
> renamed the application, but rather annoyingly doesn't report where it
> installed to in that case.  At least, not in the way it's currently
> used in NBPackage - input welcomed if there is a way we can usefully
> output that information.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Neil
> 
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