[moneydance] Moneydance doesn't run on Kubuntu

[Bruce Marshall]

On Wednesday 30 July 2008, Barry Premeaux wrote:
> I am in the process of setting up a new PC with Kubuntu for my
> desktop.  Ran the installer for Moneydance with Java.  It all
> installed just fine, but it won't run.  When I try it from the desktop
> menu, I get the pulsing curser and then it dies.  If I try it from the
> command line, nothing happens at all.  I tried doing a chmod on the
> moneydance.jar file, still get the same results.  I am wondering if
> anyone else has it running on Kubuntu?
>
> One note, I have not installed Java on this machine as yet and Kubuntu
> doesn't install any by default.

It's a problem with your Java (or lack thereof)

Run fine here on Kubuntu  8.04  using the supplied (with MD) jre.