It seems that one needs to follow the instructions given on moose website to correctly startup moose on Linux/Ubunto.
On Sat, 7 Jan 2012, Usman Bhatti wrote:Thanks. I was just going through pharo.
You can have a look here for instructions for loading Moose in
Linux:http://www.moosetechnology.org/download/4.6
Thanks! That seems to start up as it should :)
I haven't used it on Linux myself; I am sending this mail to moos-dev list
and there are people who are successfully using it on Linux. They may be
able to suggest a better solution to the problem.
julia