[moneydance] MD can't find newly installed Java jre

[Lawrence Kalmakoff]

On July 2, 2007, Larry Alkoff wrote:
> I've had to install Kubuntu Feisty Fawn to a new drive.
> When I click on the Moneydance icon, it bounces and then stops without
> loading.
>
> I previously ran sun-java5-jre but now am using java6-jre.
> How do I tell moneydance about that?
> I seem to remember a soft link in an earlier MD version.
>
> To move MD I did the following steps:
> 1.  Install Java:
> 	apt-get install sun-java6-jre
>
> 2.  Copied the personal MD files
> 	cp -av /mnt/olddrive/home/user/inv/mdance/  /home/user/inv/
>
> 3.  Copied the /opt files:
> 	cp -av /mnt/olddrive/opt/moneydance/        /opt/
>
> 4.  Copied the Desktop file:
> 	cp /mnt/olddrive/home/user/Desktop/money\ dance.desktop
>    /home/user/Desktop/
>
> Larry

I have moneydance installed in /opt/moneydance where I have a symbolic 
link /opt/moneydance/jre that points to /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.00.  
This solved my problem with java6.  

I am running Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, so your directory names where Java is 
installed should be the same or similar.