I currently have NetBeans 6.5 installed on my mac running leopard. I searched Google on how to uninstall it and the NetBeans website says to right click on it, select "Show Package Contents" and the uninstaller should be there, but it isn't.
How can I completely uninstall NetBeans in this situation? Thanks!
The instructions on this page say that dragging the Netbeans application out of the Applications folder and into the Trash is sufficient.
Barry Brown's answer is correct; I would add how this is handled by NetBeans. If you look under the NetBeans installation directory, then under bin, you will see a shell script named "netbeans," which locates your JDK installation when NetBeans is started.
There are third party "Uninstaller" utilities for Mac, but dragging an application from "Applictions" to the trash bin is typically how application removal is done.
Note that NetBeans leaves some hidden configuration directories in your home directory. You might want to delete those too:
.asadminpass and .asadmintruststore - directories that contain stuff for Glassfish (Java EE application server)
.netbeans and .netbeans-registration - NetBeans configuration directories
.nbprofiler - something from the NetBeans profiler
In a terminal window, you can list all files and directories (including hidden ones) with ls -la, and you can delete them with for example rm -rf .netbeans (BE CAREFUL with that last command, it deletes stuff so that you can't get it back).
I think you can uninstall it the same way it is done on Ubuntu as explained in this sample post. I'm not a Mac user myself, so I may be wrong but it's worth posting this here in case there are Linux users in the house.