As my interest has been picked by this course in Coursera about quick mobile development through Codapps.io, I proceeded to enroll.
Here I am documenting the very first part of the course which is installation of the requisite software tools. As the videos and instructions on the course site mainly used Mac and Windows, I thought documenting one for Linux/Ubuntu would be quite handy in the future.
Installing Java Development Kit (JDK) and Netbeans on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
JDK is a prerequisite for Netbeans to run. So we install that first.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java -y
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
Download Netbeans installer from the official Netbeans download page. We got netbeans-8.1-javase-linux.sh
Once downloaded, we open the location of the downloaded file and run it. ./netbeans-8.1-javase-linux.sh
A GUI will appear. Simply follow the onscreen instructions until the installation is complete.
Reference:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/464755/how-to-install-openjdk-8-on-14-04-lts
