[moneydance] 64-bit Linux

[Lawrence Kalmakoff]

On June 6, 2007, Robert Kesterson wrote:
> 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.

YES!!!

It worked like a charm.  Thank you Robert and everyone else who took the time 
to help.  In hindsight, this has been a good, although sometimes frustrating, 
learning experience.

Thanks again,
Lawrence