tag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:/discussions/problems/1152-md-wil-not-launch-after-ubuntu-upgrade-to-1004-ltsInfinite Kind: Discussion 2018-10-18T13:55:45Ztag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/16372492010-05-09T20:53:17Z2010-05-09T20:53:17ZMD wil not launch after Ubuntu upgrade to 10.04 LTS<div><p>Isn't that nice? I just got that myself. Upgrading to Ubuntu
10.04 (or other flavors, like Xubuntu) actually removes Sun Java
from your system, if you installed it from their repository
originally. (I guess the Ubuntu folks are saying: you didn't need
that.)</p>
<p>You have 2 choices. <a href=
"http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1004">Ubuntu release
notes</a> say you should use openjdk instead of sun-java. No
thanks, not until the Moneydance staff tests and qualifies it. (Not
holding my breath for that to happen).</p>
<p>Choice 2 is to install (re-install) Sun's Java. You can do that
through the Ubuntu installer (synaptic) but you have to add a
repository first. There is a command-line step in the release notes
linked above, and you can also do it through synaptic. Then you
install 3 packages: sun-java6-jre (which brings in sun-java6-bin),
and sun-java6-fonts. If you would like more detailed instructions I
can post them here.</p>
<p>You can probably also do this using the download right from Sun,
or even the Moneydance installer that includes Java. But I used the
above 'choice 2' and it worked without problems.</p></div>ljbtag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/16372492010-05-09T21:32:51Z2010-05-09T21:32:54ZMD wil not launch after Ubuntu upgrade to 10.04 LTS<div><p>UPDATE re: MD failure to launch......I staggered around for some
time with Java<br>
without any tangible results. I finally deleted the entire MD
folder and reinstalled<br>
Moneydance in a new folder in the same location using the
x86wj.tar.gz version. This<br>
worked OK without any additional issues. I didn't lose any data
since all MD<br>
data was stored on an external USB drive.</p></div>companion39tag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/16372492010-05-12T16:39:07Z2010-05-12T16:39:07ZMD wil not launch after Ubuntu upgrade to 10.04 LTS<div><p>Thanks for the information. I haven't got around to updating
ubuntu on my work machine yet and so havent tested Moneydance on
10.04. OpenJDK should just be the GPL stuff from the sunJDK. I'm
installing a new test machine with 10.04 as I write this and will
thoroughly test out the OpenJDK with Moneydance on that machine and
report back.</p>
<p>Ben Spencer<br>
Moneydance Support</p></div>Ben Spencertag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/16372492010-05-12T22:17:11Z2010-05-12T22:17:11ZMD wil not launch after Ubuntu upgrade to 10.04 LTS<div><p>My mistake. I thought OpenJDK was a 'clone' product; I didn't
realize it was Sun's relicensed parts of Java.<br></p>
<p>So I switched my Xubuntu from sun-java6 to openjdk-6-jre (no
risk, as I don't use Xubuntu for my real stuff.) At first glance,
it seems OK with Moneydance. I did notice that you cannot tell from
Help > About that you are using OpenJDK. It just says "Java
version: 1.6.0_18, Vendor: Sun".</p>
<p>Then I tried to print. No good - lines are all squished
together. It is possible I just have some setting different - I'll
try the font preferences again, and see how it works with sun-java6
- but for now it doesn't look good.</p></div>ljbtag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/16372492010-05-16T00:53:30Z2010-05-16T00:53:30ZMD wil not launch after Ubuntu upgrade to 10.04 LTS<div><p>Follow-up: Landscape page orientation report printing seems to
be broken with OpenJDK. Portrait page is OK.</p>
<p>I'm not sure where you will go with this. OpenJDK is probably
the future for Java end users, so I don't think it can be ignored.
Want me to open a Trac report? I can include a picture of the
deformed report.</p></div>ljbtag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/16372492010-05-16T11:29:06Z2010-05-16T11:29:06ZMD wil not launch after Ubuntu upgrade to 10.04 LTS<div><h1>ignonre</h1>
<p>----- Original Message ----- From: "ljb"
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To: <a href=
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Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 8:55 PM<br>
Subject: Re: MD wil not launch after Ubuntu upgrade to 10.04 LTS
[Problems]</p></div>companion39tag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/16372492010-05-17T11:21:10Z2010-05-17T11:21:10ZMD wil not launch after Ubuntu upgrade to 10.04 LTS<div><p>----- Original Message ----- From: "companion39"<br>
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To: <a>companion39@gmail.com</a><br>
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 7:31 AM<br>
Subject: Re: MD wil not launch after Ubuntu upgrade to 10.04 LTS
[Problems]</p></div>companion39tag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/16372492010-05-17T18:34:12Z2010-05-17T18:34:12ZMD wil not launch after Ubuntu upgrade to 10.04 LTS<div><p>Hi lbj,</p>
<p>I upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 a few days after it came out and
didn't even realize they'd gotten rid of Sun Java until Ben
mentioned it to me today! I haven't noticed any difference in how
Moneydance runs since the change.</p>
<p>Which report are you trying to print? I printed the transactions
list and the Income and Expenses report in landscape with no
problems. It could be that there are problems with specific reports
though, so if you let me know which one(s) you are trying to use, I
can test them on my machine as well.</p>
<p>Jessica Little<br>
Moneydance Support</p></div>Jessica Littletag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/16372492010-05-17T19:15:00Z2010-05-17T19:15:00ZMD wil not launch after Ubuntu upgrade to 10.04 LTS<div><p>If you installed MD using a package which includes Java ("Linux,
includes Java"), then the Ubuntu upgrade won't affect you because
your MD has its own JRE.</p>
<p>But if you installed MD using a package without Java ("Linux,
does not include Java", or my favorite, "Generic Unix"), and relied
on Java from the Ubuntu repository, then the upgrade will break MD
when it removes Java. One might do this because one needs Java for
other things such as OpenOffice.org or a web browser, also because
it is easier to upgrade Java that way for things like security
updates.</p>
<p>If you then follow the Ubuntu folk's advice and install OpenJDK
instead of Sun-java6, you then have MD + OpenJDK. That's where
landscape mode printing breaks. I didn't try every report, but
every report I tried broke this way.</p>
<p>You can tell which flavor of Java you have from the command line
"java -version" (OpenJDK vs Java(TM) SE), but that doesn't
necessarily show you what Moneydance is using. Help>About
doesn't help because OpenJDK also identifies itself as being from
Sun. For me, MD reports OpenJDK as Java 1.6.0_18 and Sun-6-java as
1.6.0_20 but that isn't generally helpful.</p>
<p>(Follow-ups should probably go to a new thread, as I see the
original thread starter has tried to unsubscribe twice now.)</p></div>ljbtag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/16372492010-05-17T19:36:30Z2010-05-17T19:36:30ZMD wil not launch after Ubuntu upgrade to 10.04 LTS<div><p>Discussion continued on this thread: <a href=
"http://help.infinitekind.com/discussions/problems/1180-openjdk-and-moneydance-on-ubuntu-1004">
http://help.infinitekind.com/discussions/problems/1180-openjdk-and-...</a></p>
<p>I'll go ahead and resolve this one.</p>
<p>Jessica Little<br>
Moneydance Support</p></div>Jessica Littletag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/16372492010-05-17T21:46:52Z2010-05-17T21:46:52ZMD wil not launch after Ubuntu upgrade to 10.04 LTS<div><p>----- Original Message ----- From: "Jessica Little"<br>
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"mailto:tender+d8b378fa4f1d44453e6470e3b9772e3897b14ed68@tenderapp.com">
tender+d8b378fa4f1d44453e6470e3b9772e3897b14ed68@tenderapp.com</a><br>
To: <a>companion39@gmail.com</a><br>
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 2:36 PM<br>
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[Problems]</p></div>companion39