[moneydance] installing in Ubuntu 8.10

[gordonsmall User]

Thanks for the quick response, Ken.  I will do some checking and see
what I find.

Have you had a good experience with Moneydance?  I am about ready to
move all my computing to Ubuntu - Quicken was about the only obstacle
(and a good OCR program).

Gordon

On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 22:56 -0500, Ken T wrote:
> 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. 
> 
> 
> 
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