TOTD #29: Enabling "Available Plugins" tab in NetBeans IDE

If you see "Available Plugins" tab disabled in your NetBeans
Plugin Update Center as shown below

alt="NetBeans 6.1 Beta Available Plugins Tab"
title="NetBeans 6.1 Beta Available Plugins Tab"
src="http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/resource/netbeans/nb61-beta-available-plugins-tab.png">

then you have to explicitly hit "Reload Catalog" button in the top-left
corner and to enable it. And then you see:



alt="NetBeans 6.1 Beta Available Plugins Tab Enabled"
title="NetBeans 6.1 Beta Available Plugins Tab Enabled"
src="http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/resource/netbeans/nb61-beta-available-plugins-tab-enabled.png">

Filed issue href="http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=129721">#129721
for tracking purposes.

Do you know that href="http://download.netbeans.org/netbeans/6.1/beta/">NetBeans
6.1 beta is now available ?

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