It seems that one needs to follow the instructions given on moose website to correctly startup moose on Linux/Ubunto.

On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> wrote:
On Sat, 7 Jan 2012, Usman Bhatti wrote:

You can have a look here for instructions for loading Moose in
Linux:http://www.moosetechnology.org/download/4.6

Thanks.  I was just going through pharo.


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.

Thanks!  That seems to start up as it should :)

julia