backupgnucash jar file

[Plutocrat]

The software is called Backup Gnucash for Windows, so maybe it doesn't run on Linux? Java apps aren't automatically cross platform. 

I guess you could try running it from the command line 'java -jar backupgnucash.jar' ... but I think you're probably onto a loser there. Its not too hard to write a script to backup gnucash files in Linux anyway. 

tar -zcf /path/to/backup/$(date +%F-%H%M)-gnucash-backup.tar.gz /path/to/gnucashdata/

Something like this? 

P.

ETS wrote on Friday, 02 September, 2016 12:15 AM:
> On my way into linux from windows - I am trying to get
> https://github.com/goodvibes2/BackupGnuCashWin/tree/master/src/backupgnucash
> to work under Mint 18.  I've downloaded the jar file, and marked it as
> executable, and tried to use the java 8 to run it ... but when I click
> on the jar file nothing happens.  On the windows side, at least the
> window popped up so you could set the paths.  Anyone else using this
> program?