Archive for March, 2008

My Little Sister Wants Me To Show Her How A Blog Works…

Monday, March 17th, 2008

It’s just a way to tell people what you’re up to or interested in. The difficulty is in deciding what your posts should be about, and the best way to resolve that conundrum is to just start typing! OK Sis, now it’s your go.

Ubuntu and NetBeans 6.1 Install Issues

Monday, March 10th, 2008

I’ve just spent about an hour trying to install the new NetBeans 6.1 Beta on my Ubuntu machine and kept getting this message in the terminal and then a bank installer screen:

Running the installer wizard…
/usr/share/themes/Human/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:71: Engine “ubuntulooks” is unsupported, ignoring…

Now you might assume that this is a problem with Ubuntu’s native look and feel not being supported or maybe some kind of java version problem. I did, and so spend some time making sure I had the latest jdk and  then tried to pass a java platform argument into the install script all to no avail.

It turns out to be a problem with java and compiz. Turn the Visual Effects settings to none in System>Preferences>Apperance and the installer runs as it should.