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Andres Jaimes

Solution: Netbeans 8 not working on Ubuntu 15.10

Netbeans is one of my beloved day to day applications. Yesterday, when I installed Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) on my computer, Netbeans started to hang on the startup screen, specifically at the Loading Modules phase. It took me hours looking for solutions on the internet; and reinstalling different versions of the Java Development Framework didn’t seem to help. Finally I found the following fix at an Ubuntu forum, which turned out to be very simple to apply.