[moneydance] Upgrading

[Bruce Marshall]

On Monday 02 July 2007, m.papierniak wrote:
> I am looking for any advise for upgrading.  I am currently running
> Moneydance #531 on MEPIS 6.0.  My concern is printing.  Every upgrade I
> have done in the past has trashed my being able to print and only through
> hours of this and that this and that and finally getting the printing
> working again.  And, honestly I must say that I could not repeat the steps
> taken to solve the problem.  Most frustrating.  I installed the last major
> upgrade and printing didn't work so I backed out.  While I would like to
> upgrade and have all the new functionality printing, of checks, is an issue
> and loosing that is enough to keep me running an old version.  So any
> advise is accepted..

I'll stick my nose into this problem because it may be easy to solve.

The problem of printing (which I have had off and on for about a year) deals 
with the various versions of Java and some changes that were made which 
caused the printing problems and someday maybe things will get straightened 
out.

So the answer to the printing problem (on Linux) is to:

1) Find a version of java that works.
2) Stick with that version until something better comes along.

The problem with doing major upgrades is that it probably wipes out your JRE 
pointer and causes it to point to either the JRE that comes with MD  or to 
some other version.

I have always had good luck with  the Blackdown JRE version  j2rel1.4  (as 
kubuntu names it)

The pointer I am currently using to use this version looks like:

jre -> /usr/lib/j2se/1.4/jre/


Now it is a simple matter to make that pointer....   one simple command done 
in the MD directory where it will use that jre pointer.

Can you find a version of the above Blackdown jre  for Mepis?

Changing to that has helped other users but I will certainly agree that 
printing has become a big mess for MD.