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context: rather than downloading IDE's and SDK's manually, where possible, I prefer to use automation such as: rVM, SDKman, snap, and umake or ubuntu make. The scope of this question is limited to tools like this, such as apt and not to manual downloads.

How do I install Netbeans 9+ using umake?

I installed umake with apt because snap has problems with umake.

Java 11 was installed with SDKman, although I also installed 8.0.192-zulu and 9.0.7-zulu as well.

Ubuntu make only installs Netbeans 8.2.

How do I get umake to download Netbeans 9?

Ubuntu Make

Ubuntu Make is a command line tool which allows you to download the latest version of popular developer tools on your installation, installing it alongside all of the required dependencies (which will only ask for root access if you don't have all the required dependencies installed already), enable multi-arch on your system if you are on a 64 bit machine, integrate it with the Unity launcher. Basically, one command to get your system ready to develop with!

Since I'm at version 8.2 for Netbeans, presumably there's a better way to utilize umake.

thufir@dur:~$  
thufir@dur:~$ netbeans
WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred
WARNING: Illegal reflective access by org.netbeans.ProxyURLStreamHandlerFactory (file:/home/thufir/.local/share/umake/ide/netbeans/platform/lib/boot.jar) to field java.net.URL.handler
WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of org.netbeans.ProxyURLStreamHandlerFactory
WARNING: Use --illegal-access=warn to enable warnings of further illegal reflective access operations
WARNING: All illegal access operations will be denied in a future release
^C
thufir@dur:~$ 
thufir@dur:~$ java -version
openjdk version "11.0.1" 2018-10-16
OpenJDK Runtime Environment 18.9 (build 11.0.1+13)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 18.9 (build 11.0.1+13, mixed mode)
thufir@dur:~$ 
thufir@dur:~$ javac -version
javac 11.0.1
thufir@dur:~$ 
thufir@dur:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 18.10
Release:    18.10
Codename:   cosmic
thufir@dur:~$

Maybe I should downgrade Java:

https://askubuntu.com/a/1093681/45156

and then re-install NB. I don't see how that would update netbeans, however.

footnote: actually, Netbeans 8.2 installs fine from the snap version of ubuntu-make or umake.

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Update (8 April 2019):
Apache Netbeans (incubating) is now available via ubuntu-make. As they say, latest version, You can now install Netbeans 11.0 using ubuntu-make. For that, run:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lyzardking/ubuntu-make
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-make
umake ide netbeans

Historical answer:

According to Ubuntu-make's official repository on GitHub last time Netbeans data such as link was updated/committed on 30 March 2017 while Netbeans 9.0 was released on 29 July 2018. So, I believe as of now it is impossible to install Netbeans 9.0 via ubuntu-make until it updates the details. You'll find that all folders here which contain details about Netbeans have details of version 8.2.

Also, according to Netbeans 8.2 official release notes:

The tested JDK for this release is JDK 8u101 for Windows, Linux, and OS X. The 8.2 version of the IDE cannot be installed or run on the JDK older than JDK 8.

So, I think its better to downgrade the Java and use Netbeans 8.2 or install Netbeans 9.0 using other methods.

Kulfy
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  • it installed and runs, but is 8.x, not 9. Odd that ubuntu make doesn't update netbeans. grrr. thanks for the deep dive into GitHub. I had no idea how to get more info on that. Thanks, also, for confirming incompatibility between JDK and NB versions. – Thufir Dec 16 '18 at 00:05
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    @Thufir You can make a request to update Netbeans on GitHub. – Kulfy Dec 16 '18 at 07:32