Installing Oanda on Ubuntu linux

I've been trying to get off windows for years - many failed attempts with various linux distros always got too difficult for what I need my system to do trading-wise and I went back to windows 7. Win 10 was the final nail in the coffin, so, I thought i'd pay it forward after cobblng together info from here and a few other places to get Oanda installed on Ubuntu 18.04.

1. Oanda needs the Oracle version of Java - run the following commands in a terminal:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

2. download the Oanda trading platform .tar file from their website, and unpack to a folder of your choice. The file name currently is fxTrade_installer.sh.

3. run one of the following commands (one should work on your linux system) and the Oanda installer file will appear on the desktop.

sudo ./fxTrade_installer.sh
./fxTrade_installer.sh
bash fxTrade_installer.sh
sh fxTrade_installer.sh
sudo bash fxTrade_installer.sh

4. Double click and the platform should load, ready for username/password input.

If you're here from an internet search like I was, please add any other info that might help further in the comments.

This has been a long and winding road to get Oanda on a linux distro for me, so, hope this helps someone else get off windows

Thank you. I finally got it to install. That first one did it for me.

"sudo ./fxTrade_installer.sh"

For non-english users:
Installer tries to create shortcut in 'Desktop' folder.
In non-english versions desktop folder has usually different name, so you have to
open fxtrade_installer.sh with some editor (Leafpad works) and change /Desktop/ to it's proper name.
Remember, change only paths.

Solving this problem only will invite another problem. You'd better use win for trading purposes.
it is not everyday you will desk apps compatible with linux distros.

Hello,
i try to install the Oanda platform on lubuntu and ubuntu, but I have a problem with the advenced charting:

Anyone have idea, how can I fix it?
Thx!

From top of page, steps 1a and 1b were fine, however step 1c (sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer) gave the following:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package oracle-java8-installer is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'oracle-java8-installer' has no installation candidate

Any suggestions?

I get this same error in ubuntu 18 lts.

run

java -version

to check what version you have and it should provide some suggestions if there is no java installed.




I still havent gotten mine to run yet.