Getting Opera 9.5 beta to work on 64-bit Ubuntu Gutsy

I use the 64-bit version of Ubuntu Gutsy, and the Opera web browser is not available in the distro repositories.

Luckily, I just stumbled upon an entry on Trent’s blog, in which he laments the drawbacks of 64-bit Ubuntu Gutsy, and goes on to discover how to overcome some of the drawbacks the very next day (scroll down and read the comments on the linked article). :-)

Getting NetBeans 6.0 to work with Subversion on Ubuntu Gutsy

I wanted to build Apache Derby with NetBeans on Ubuntu Gutsy. Here’s how I got NetBeans to work with Subversion:

1. Browse to
   Tools -> Options -> Miscellaneous -> Versioning -> Subversion
2. Fill in the “Specify SVN Home Folder” field with “/usr/bin”, without the quotes.
3. Restart NetBeans.