[moneydance] Should I be root or user to install preview version 609?

[Larry Alkoff]

Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Saturday 21 June 2008, Larry Alkoff wrote:
>> Bruce Marshall wrote:
>>> On Saturday 21 June 2008, Larry Alkoff wrote:
>>>> The newly installed Moneydance 609 did not print at all.
>>>> I print with CUPS which normally works fine.
>>>>
>>>> Java Version: 1.6.0_06
>>>> Java Vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
>>>>
>>>> I sure wish this would get fixed.
>>> I'm printing OK with CUPS so here are the details:
>>>
>>>
>>> Kubuntu  8.04
>>> MD  609
>>> JRE = that which I downloaded with MD which has a date on the JRE
>>> directory of 1-21-07   (inidcates it is from 1.6 but I can't find a
>>> specific version ID) the date of 'java' and the 'java_vm'  within the JRE
>>> directory is 11-29-06
>>>
>>> I've never had much luck using the supplied jre that comes with MD but
>>> this last one works.  I used to use  Blackdown 1.4 to print with but it
>>> is no longer supplied with 8.04.
>> Hello Bruce and thanks for your information.
>>
>> The first time I installed MD today was _without_ the built-in Java.
>>
>> The dates of the files in the /usr/local/moneydance/jre/bin were all
>> 12/15/06.
>>
>> To load the version of MD _with_ built-in Java I first copied the
>> /usr/local/moneydance directory to /usr/local/moneydance.old to preserve
>> it.
>>
>> The dates of the new jre/bin files were all 2/22/08 but it doesn't print
>> either.
>>
>> I wonder if there is something different in out configurations.
>>
>> The version of java I use in the machine (not the one for MD) is:
>>
>> java -version
>> java version "1.6.0_06"
>> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_06-b02)
>> Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 10.0-b22, mixed mode)
>>
> 
>> In the new MD 609, help -> about reports:
>> Java Version: 1.6.0_06
>> Java Vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
>>     but no build number.
>>
> 
> Here it is:
> 
> Java Version: 1.6.0
> Java Vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
> 
>> I tried running java the executable in the /usr/local/moneydance/jre/java
>> but it just gives an error message
>> Error: no `server' JVM at
>> `/usr/local/moneydance/jre/lib/i386/server/libjvm.so'.
>>
>> How about your printing preferences?
>>
>> I have Printing method java2 and Font sans serif 10 point.
>> Do you have the same?
> 
> Same  but sans serif 9 point
> 
>> Unfortunately Sean has reported that he does not have a Linux machine so
>> cannot test printing.  There are many who have problems and a very few
>> that are printing merrily along.  I used to print ok a few years ago
>> with Sun Java but not since then.
>>
> 
> 
>> Do you think it could be something about our cups?
>> My printer is a HP LaserJet 4100.
> 
> Hee...   I use an HP LJ  4000TN   so you can't get much closer than that.
> 
> Howsomever.....
> 
> I *DO* create a 'raw' printer and I do recall that that was key to getting 
> things to print right...   I used to run a check program under dosemu and it 
> would send some binary stuff to the printer..   The 4000 would light up... 
> and then light down.  Nothing printed.
> 
> But I just printed a check to the 4000 using  'lp'  which is the default, and 
> it seemed to print just fine so that can't be the problem.
> 
> Don't know...  printing has always been an on-and-off proposition but I was 
> always able to find a workaround.
> 
> Tell ya what, the tar-ball for my jre is about 30mb.   If you want it, do you 
> have a place I can send it?   Or I can probably find a place.
> 
>

Bruce I don't have a web site to send it.

If you can find a place for it,  I'd like to have it,  but I DK if my 
ISP will allow such a big email.

In the meantime I'm going to try Robby Workman's suggestion to try the 
tarball from the Slackware site.  Up to two years ago when I went to 
Kubuntu, Slackware was my fav distro <g>.

BTW, I'm also a big user of dosemu for some of my old programs that I 
still use like Supercalc, Wordstar and Q&A.  Supercalc is my spreadsheet 
of choice - it's very fast and my fingers know exactly what to do.

Larry