[moneydance] MD 2007 will not install on Linux

[Patrick Wagstrom]

Herman Christiani wrote:
> hi, downloaded MD 2007 installed without any problem on Windows, changed 
> to PClinuxOS and tried Mandriva 2007, on neither of them MD 2007 goes 
> further than a blank install screen, tried cli, also as root, tried 
> version with and without java, no show.
> To me it looks to be a java problem, it unpacks the jvr etc. and hangs then.
> I can install 2004-2006 without any troubles.
> When using the Windows MD 2007 file with MD 2006 in Linux I get only a 
> small screen that's impossible to maximize.
> Thanks in advance for any pointers to an solution.
> Cheers, Herman

Are you using the version of moneydance that was bundled with a Java 
runtime, or are you using the runtime on your system?  A lot of 
distributions of Linux have a nasty habit of shipping the GNU JRE, which 
is useless as far as I can tell.  So while it may say it's Java, I've 
never seen it run anything.  Removing that and installing a real JRE 
(from Sun, IBM, or Blackdown) should fix the problem.

You can check what version of Java you have with "java -version".

Just a thought.

--Patrick