Installing XPath Explorer on NetBeans for Mac OSX

I have only found this documentation on installing xpath explorer on netbeans, therefore I’ll give a little more info for mac osx (it’s easy but you have to search a little).

1. download the xpe-netbeans.jar file (from the xpe project download page).

2. place the xpe-netbeans.jar file in your NetBeans module lib dir, the following worked for me:
/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 6.5.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/platform9/lib

3. restart NetBeans and you should see the following menu option: Tools > XPath Explorer.

Adapt these instructions for your NetBeans installation path and version number if different.

Installing netbeans 6.5M1 on ubuntu error:/usr/share/themes/Human/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:43: error: lexical error or unexpected token, expected valid token

problem:

I get the following error when trying to run the linux netbeans 6.5M1 installer (netbeans-6.5_m1-php-linux.sh) on ubuntu 8.04:

/usr/share/themes/Human/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:43: error: lexical error or unexpected token, expected valid token

and then the installer window shows a blank screen.

(I’m guessing this post may relate to other versions of netbeans and ubuntu)

solution:

the problem was the jvm 1.5 I was running under, updating to jvm 1.6 solves the problem… I installed the sun-java6-jdk and the jvm dependencies then when executing the installer I specified the java home as follows:

./netbeans-6.5_m1-php-linux.sh --javahome /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun