Netbeans: Install/Activate/Uninstall/Deactivate plugins buttons disabled

I recently installed Netbeans 6.9 on a new computer. I went to install the NB Android plugin, which I have on another computer, but I found most of the functionality of the plugins window disabled. The install, uninstall, activate, and deactivate buttons are grayed out. I have included images at the bottom. This hasn't happened to me before, and searching Google hasn't turned up anything useful.

I thought it might have been a permission problem so I tried running Netbeans with gksudo but that didn't help. I also thought it might have been something wonky with the Ubuntu Software Center install, so I uninstalled that one, and downloaded Netbeans from the main site and I installed it in my home directory, but it does the same thing.

I'm running Xubuntu 10.10 and Netbeans 6.9.1

Available Plugins Tab

Installed Tab

Josh

Posted 2010-11-14T10:34:14.367

Reputation: 23

hello? are you looking at this? if i was unclear in some way or it isn't working let me know....it works for me – RobotHumans – 2010-11-15T18:05:23.607

Answers

you have to right click and select the plugin

RobotHumans

Posted 2010-11-14T10:34:14.367

Reputation: 5 758

i don't mean to be trite, it threw me for a second also not having a checkbox or highlighting working for install. – RobotHumans – 2010-11-14T16:38:57.417

I had a similar problem in NetBeans 6.9.1, where I could right click on any individual plugin, but Activate, Deactivate, and Uninstall were all greyed out.

I realized, quite by accident, that it is possible to select individual packages for uninstallation by using the space bar to mark a package as selected.

Taeram

Posted 2010-11-14T10:34:14.367

Reputation: 113