The following steps outline installing NetBeans 6.5.1 on Ubuntu 8.10:

1) Download and install the GNU Standard C++ library v3.

2) Download and install the Java EE 5 SDK Update 7. Run ./java_ee_sdk-5_07-linux.bin in a terminal window. If you are not running as admin run chmod 755 java_ee_sdk-5_07-linux.bin.

3) Download and install NetBeans 6.5.1. Run bash netbeans-6.5.1-ml-linux.sh.