How to Install Netbeans IDE 8.01 on Ubuntu

After a long while with Netbeans IDE 7.4, I decided upgrade to new released version of Netbeans IDE 8.0.1.  Here I give some recommended steps before install IDE 8.0.1 on your Ubuntu Linux OS. 

1. Uninstall previous version of Netbeans: Your default "uninstall.sh" file in the /home/userName/Netbeans7.x.x folder is doing this job. 


2. Update your JRE and JDK: Before update, enter "java -version" into terminal to check your current version of JAVA.


3. To install OpenJDK 7, execute the following command:

sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre 

This will install the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). 

4. If you instead need the Java Development Kit (JDK), execute the following command:

sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

5. Run "netbeans-8.0.1-linux.sh" through the terminal.