Wow! That seems like a lot of work! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott G. Hall Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 1:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Need Linux solution for Quicken
Owen Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you looked at CrossOver by CodeWeavers? > (http://www.codeweavers.com/) Looks like they have a free trial of > CrossOver Linux available for you to try before you buy. > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:11:11AM -0400, Tommy Williams wrote: >> My wife's computer is being migrated from Windows to Ubuntu, and the >> only application we lack is a replacement for Quicken, a problem is >> created by our use of the Quicken Bill Pay service which interfaces >> with the Quicken software. >> >> I have explored the use of WINE to get Quicken to run, everything >> appears to work except the online services (which is the one thing >> that I _must_ have). I am using Quicken right now with no problems. I use CrossOver Office 5 (currently 5.0.3), which is an implementation of WINE. What CodeWeavers has added to WINE is a presetup selection that gets you to the point of Quicken Online to work. (The following may also work to make WINE working -- it is just not as convenient) What you do is: 1) Install MS fonts. The easiest way to do this non-automatically is to make a CD copy of your C:\Windows\Fonts directory, and copy the result into your ${WINEROOT}/support/${BOTTLE}/drive_c/ Windows/Fonts directory. I also happen to sym-link these to my /usr/share/fonts/truetype/MSWindows directory to make them available to OpenOffice/Star Office as well. (Don't forget to make the fonts.dir file and resync X-Windows) 2) Install IE6 (CodeWeavers has a special loader that will avoid installing DLL's that clobber CrossOver/WINE libraries). Check to install everything -- including Media Player. You may also need to download and install the flash plugin so that some pages of Quicken's site work correctly. 3) Install MS's MSI installer. 4) Pickup and install the MDAC and SCR redistributables to give IE support for data access and Windows Scripting. 5) Download and install the DCOM95 or DCOM98 module to provide COM-model OLE support. You see, Quicken is dependent on IE DLL's to handle networking (Quicken uses IE's browser component), and IE is dependent on the above. Then you install Quicken (up to Quicken 2005; Q-2006 and Q-2007 are broken) (the installer makes some adjustments to Quicken's configuration that are not done after installation if you do the above steps afterwards). What's nice about the CXO version, is that these steps are easily clickable from their configuration program. -- Scott G. Hall Raleigh, NC, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
