[moneydance] Installing Moneydance on Suse 10.1

[George Baltz]

On Saturday 11 November 2006 00:47, Ric Werme wrote:
> Random notes worth logging before I forget them:
>
>
> Well, okay.  Last time around I went along figuring that letting Moneydance
> load a JVM would leave things working okay.  This time I decided to fight
> back a little.  I found several Java directories, but the only populated
> one was /usr/lib/jvm/jre1.5.0_09 .  I don't think anything really links to
> it, on the system.  The shell script doesn't include /usr/lib/jvm in
> $common_jvm_locations, so that why the script gave up.  (It did continue
> and asked if I wanted to download a jre.)
>
Random addition to random notes:  For SUSE 10.x, the installer adds a bunch of 
symlinks in /etc/alternatives for Java and some of the other versioned 
packages.  This might be a directory to add to the installer's search.

> So I changed the top of the script from:
>
>   # INSTALL4J_JAVA_HOME_OVERRIDE=
>
> to:
>
>   # ejw Several empty directories exist, this is populated.
>   INSTALL4J_JAVA_HOME_OVERRIDE=/usr/lib/jvm/jre1.5.0_09
>
> Along the way, I added an extra "echo" command to check the values of
> key variables.  Both those changes caused:
>
>   gunzip: sfx_archive.tar.gz: not in gzip format
>
BTDT - gotta be a better way..

>   I am sorry, but the installer file seems to be corrupted.
>   If you downloaded that file please try it again. If you
>   transfer that file with ftp please make sure that you are
>   using binary mode.
>
> That turns out to be due to the script knowing what line number the
> data starts on:
>
>   tail -n +382 "$prg_dir/${progname}" > sfx_archive.tar.gz 2> /dev/null

sed '1,/^##BINARY FOLLOWS/d'  "$prg_dir/${progname}" > sfx_archive.tar.gz \  
2> /dev/null  # Maybe?


> I guess some post-processor added the line number.  Yuck, I probably would
> have created a uuencoded file and copied or extracted that.  At any rate,
> changing +382 to +384 let me extract things and start the installer.
> Oh, there's an installer, it's not just a tar file, and it doesn't care
> where it's run from.  It does care who it runs as.  So rerun from my root
> window and let it install to /opt/moneydance and create a symlink from
> /usr/local/bin/.  (I later decided to create a launcher button, not too
> hard, especially after I read in a forum about
> /opt/moneydance/.install4j/Moneydance.png .)
>
> The above is kind of rambling, my main point is that it sure would be
> nice to have an INSTALL or README file that describes the installation
> process for the system type.  The file should describe:
>
> 1) Download to a file.
> 2) Execute "sudo sh <file>" or execute from root window because it will
>    affect system directories.  Note that most of the installation work is
>    in the graphical installer, not the shell script.
> 3) Instructions on creating a launcher and how to run Moneydance without
>    invoking a launcher should be included.  (N.B. you can't expect people
>    to see the online docs until MD is running!)
> 4) I was surprised that executing "/opt/moneydance/Moneydance foo.md"
>    didn't open demo.md.  It worked in MD 2005, IIRC.  File open defaulted
>    to ~/Documents, not the current directory.
>
> Basically, there really needs to be something that walks a new user
> through each step.  Heck, old users too!
>
> I installed a few extensions, that went fine, though that process could
> be improved, especially during initial configuration when one would
> download several.
>
> I may be able to try out the new MD with my real data tomorrow.
> Oh boy, printer setup.  I can hardly wait....
>
>    -Ric Werme
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George Baltz  N3GB
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