The JDK is missing and is required to run some NetBeans modules

Question

Complete error message: The JDK is missing and is required to run some NetBeans modules Please use the --jdkhome command line option to specify a JDK installation or see ht

Answer 1

Find the file [netbeans installation directory]/etc/netbeans.conf

Luckily, Linux has a find helper like find /home/ -name "netbeans.conf, in which you can change the /home/ to a location where you want to search.

I found it at /usr/local/netbeans-8.1/etc/netbeans.conf

Once, you found the file, the following property needs to be set:

netbeans_jdkhome="[jdk_path]"

where you can find the jdk_path using:

update-alternatives --config java

In my case, I found it at /opt/java/jdk1.8.0_191