[moneydance] 64-bit Linux

[Robert Kesterson]

On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:44:22 -0500, Lawrence Kalmakoff <lawrence at magma.ca>  
wrote:
>
> It's got to be something really simple that I'm just "not getting".   
> I've been three days without Moneydance and my finances are calling for  
> attention.  I may have to dust off Windows and run that version of 
> Moneydance, although that seems to be a lot of work for the abilityto  
> use one program.

Let's hope it doesn't come to that...

> If anyone has any other suggestions, I'm all ears.

Here's one.  I just tried this, and it worked for me.  This is on an  
X86_64 system running Ubuntu 7.04 (not my normal Moneydance machine, but  
same architecture and OS).  This should bypass the install problem  
entirely.

First install the Sun JRE (which it sounds like you already have).

Now go to the Moneydance download page and grab the one for Generic Unix  
(http://moneydance.com/download/2007/Unix/moneydance_other.tar.gz).     
Pick a place where you want to put it and take the following steps.

     # Change this to the path where you want to put moneydance
     cd /home/me
     # use the real path to the downloaded tar.gz file
     tar -zxv </path/to/moneydance_other.tar.gz
     cd moneydance
     # substitute your real JRE path here
     ln -s /usr/lib/jre1.5.0_06 jre
     # optional, but recommended
     sudo ln -s `pwd`/moneydance /usr/bin/moneydance

At that point you should be able to type "moneydance" in a shell prompt  
and it should come up.

-- 
   Robert Kesterson
   robertk at robertk.com