Installing IDE On Ubuntu

Contributed By Sohail Ashraf

1.   Installing Quanta Plus (Replacement of Dreamweaver)

Quanta Plus IDE is a WYSIWYG Editor. It can be used as simple layout editor for HTML and CSS as well as it also can be used for programming languages like PHP.

• Go to Terminal Applications → Accessories → Terminal
• sudo su
• Enter the root passwor
• apt-get install kdewebdev
• sudo apt-get install quanta

Where it resides

Applications → Programming →  Quanta Plus

2.       Installing NetBeans IDE  GUI Based installation

To install NetBeans IDE on your Ubuntu system first you need to “install Sun JRE and JDK(Java Enviornment)”.

Copy netbeans-6.7.1-ml-php-linux.sh.tar.gz on your desktop. Right click on this file and click on option “Extrect Here”. Then you will find a file “netbeans-6.7.1-ml-php-linux.sh” double click on it. And chose “run”. Follow the GUI setup to install and configure Netbeans.

Figure 11: Want to Run NetBeans Setup

Command Based installation

• Go to Terminal Applications → Accessories → Terminal
• wget http://netbeans.osuosl.org/6.7.1/bundles/netbeans-6.7.1-ml-php-linux.sh
• ./netbeans-6.7.1-ml-php-linux.sh
• Follow the GUI setup to install and configuer Netbeans

Where it resides

Applications → Programming →   NetBeans IDE

3.   Installing Zend Studio

To install ZendStudio7 IDE on your Ubuntu system first you need to “install Sun JRE and JDK(Java Enviornment)”.

Copy Zend Studio 7.tar.gz  on your desktop. Right click on these files and click on option “Extract Here”. Then you will find a folder “Zend Studio 7”.

• Go to Terminal Applications → Accessories → Terminal
• cd /home/user_name/Desktop/Zend Studio 7
• sudo chmod +x ZendStudio7_0_2.bin
• ./ZendStudio7_0_2.bin

Follow the GUI setup to install and configure ZendStudio7.After the whole setup finishes. You need to activate it. In  “Zend Studio 7” folder you will find a file “serial.txt”. Open the Zend Studio 7 IDE. Then click at menu → Help → Register. And copy the “User Name and License Key” to register you copy of Zend Studio.

Where it resides

You will find a “Zend Studio – 7.0.2” icon at your desktop.

4.   Installing Dreamweaver

Before proceeding to the following steps, get the patched version of Macromedia  Dreamweaver Setup from MIS department. Copy the setup folder to somewhere in your file system.

CrossOver installation (Stable then Wine)

Follow these steps to install Dreamweaver . Click on the menu Applications → CrossOver → Install Windows Software

Figure 12: Select UnSupported Software from CrossOver

Figure 13: Want to Proceed with unsupported software

Figure 14: Select the Setup file for DreamWeaver

Figure 15: Select the bottle type

Figure 16: Inform CrossOver that setup is complete

Figure 17: Confirm CrossOver that setup is complete

Where it resides

Applications → Windows applications → Macromedia → Dreamweaver

Wine Based installation

Locate your Dreamweaver setup.exe file. Right click on it and click on option “Open With wine windows program loader”. Follow the rest of GUI step to install Dreamweaver.

Where it resides

Applications → Wine →   Programs → Macromedia → Dreamweaver