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Bleeding edge Netbeans 11.3 on DragonflyBSD 5.8

To install netbeans 11.3 do “pkg install netbeans” on your root terminal. It will take time to download 292MB netbeans + 60MB openjdk8 packages. After done installing dont forget to set PATH and JAVA_HOME environment variables. Edit your .profile file on home directory and add /usr/local/openjdk8 to “PATH=xxx:/usr/local/openjdk8; export PATH” statement. Also create JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/openjdk8; export JAVA_HOME.

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DragonflyBSD

LXDE running on DragonflyBSD 5.8

After installing dragonflybsd 5.8 on your laptop, you can install LXDE desktop using pkg command while connected to internet.

pkg install xorg

pkg install lxde-meta

edit your .xinitrc and put exec startlxde.

startx

Done !

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DragonflyBSD

Why DragonflyBSD article by Siju George

A long ago article about dragonflybsd hammer file system working …