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When installing netbeans-dev-200903040201 on my Kubuntu 8.10 (last updates this morning), all GUI components in the installer are light-gray on light-gray: checkboxes are invisible, the progress bar shows text but no bar.
Created attachment 77744 [details] Screenshot of license agreement page
Created attachment 77745 [details] Screenshot of installation progress page
That is the issue of JDK and the desktop theme, see also Issue 152788. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 152788 ***