[moneydance] installing in Ubuntu 8.10

[Ken T]

gordonsmall User wrote:
> This is embarrassing, but I will fall back on the only dumb question is
> the unasked question.
>
> I have been searching for a simple substitute for Quicken in Linux that
> prints checks, and it looks like Moneydance might be the answer. I am
> running Ubuntu 8.04 on an AMD 64 bit system, and Ubuntu is loaded under
> Windows (Wubi installation). I am pretty new to Linux.
>
> I downloaded the Linux version of Moneydance via Firefox, and then
> double clicked the file in the download manager, which seemed to extract
> the file.  However, I could not find a file where the program is now
> located.  My saved downloads go to my desktop by default, but it is not
> there, or any other file or directory that I can find.  When I search
> for Moneydance, it says no such file found.  I downloaded both Java
> versions with the same results. My package manager says I have "java-
> common" installed.
>
> Can somebody give me more specific information on how to get Moneydance
> installed on this operating system?
>   

I run Moneydance under Ubuntu.  I'm not running Wabi, but I doubt that
matters.  I think the default Java installed is OpenJava.  You better
check that since Moneydance probably won't work with gcj.  Take a look
at /usr/lib/jvm/ and see what's installed there.  OpenJava or Sun java
will work fine. 

When you extract Moneydance you should end up with a directory called
"moneydance".  Under "moneydance" there will be a file called
"Moneydance" which is the script that starts the application. 

If you can't find either of these then you probably haven't really
extracted the archive. 

Note that locate uses an index that gets built nightly so it won't find
the files that you just created.

I would think that the file would get extracted to either the desktop,
the current directory, or a directory with a name like "Downloads" (it
used to work this way).  You can move the file around after that.  If
you still don't have any luck finding it, go to your home directory and
run this:

find . -name "Moneydance" 

It should find the file you are looking for.