Bleeding edge Netbeans 11.3 on DragonflyBSD 5.8

To install netbeans 11.3 do “pkg install netbeans” on your root terminal. It will take time to download 292MB netbeans + 60MB openjdk8 packages. After done installing dont forget to set PATH and JAVA_HOME environment variables. Edit your .profile file on home directory and add /usr/local/openjdk8 to “PATH=xxx:/usr/local/openjdk8; export PATH” statement. Also create JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/openjdk8; export JAVA_HOME.

LXDE running on DragonflyBSD 5.8

After installing dragonflybsd 5.8 on your laptop, you can install LXDE desktop using pkg command while connected to internet.

pkg install xorg

pkg install lxde-meta

edit your .xinitrc and put exec startlxde.

startx

Done !