I cannot get Moneydance running on Ubuntu

There have been some problems reported with the OpenJDK that now ships with Ubuntu 10.04.

Please try installing the sun jre instead.

To do this on ubuntu 10.04 open a terminal and run the following commands (note that you can paste text into a terminal using Ctrl-Shift-V)

Add partner repository using the following command

sudo add-apt-repository “deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner”

Update the source list

sudo apt-get update

Now install sun java packages using the following commands

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts

Enter the following command and when prompted set the sun jre as the default.

sudo update-alternatives --config java