Download and installation

 

NetBeans 12.6 installation for Windows 10.

At first, go to the download section of the NetBeans official website. Then click in "previous releases".

 

Now you will see a list with the older versions of NetBeans. If you look for "Apache NetBeans 12.6" and click on "download", you will see the next screen.

 For downloading the windows installer, choose the link “Apache-NetBeans-12.6-bin-windows-x64.exe (SHA-512, PGP ASC) ”.

 Once downloaded, execute the installer and click "next" until you can see the next display:

Here you can select where do you want NetBeans and JDK to be installed. Finally, click "next" and "install".

 Configure the environment variables.

Go to the Windows settings and write "advanced system settings" in the search bar. Now, follow the next steps:

1. Click on "environment variables". That will get you to the next window:

2. In the "system variables" list, create a new variable named JAVA_HOME and add the path where the JDK is installed as a value. 

3. Look for the PATH variable in the system variables list and click on "edit".

4. Add %JAVA_HOME%\bin at the end of the list and click "OK".

Now you can start coding with NetBeans.