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Tried to install Quicken in Ubuntu Linux using Wine. I am getting errors when I open it. The starting window that asks if you are new or do you have file to work with just keeps flashing on and off. Any suggestions? TIA

Bob

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Bob
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What version of Quicken are you using? I'll attach my (from my experience) instructions for installing Quicken H&B 2007, which is working reasonably well for me (I don't do any downloads from my financial institution, so no idea if that would work)....

FWIW - I'm running Linux Mint 10 (more or less Ubuntu 11.04) with Wine

1.3.31. I do find that things tend to change over time - i.e., some tweaks that I do for one release of Linux or of Wine may not work the same way for the next release. You might want to consider buying a copy of Crossover Linux, which has tweaks to support Quicken built-in.

=========================================================================Wine - Install latest Wine 1.3 via synaptic ======================================================================== Add Wine development repository via Synaptic - Go to Settings --> Repositories "Other Software" tab --> hit "Add" - Add Apt line: ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

Install wine1.3, wine1.3-gecko, winetricks, ttf-symbol-replacement-wine1.3, gnome-exe-thumbnailer

======================================================Configure Wine via Winetricks ====================================================== Use Winetricks (winprefix menu option) to install - Tahoma - corefonts - IE (IE6 seems to work best - IE7 may be OK - IE8 has initialization failures)

Check properties of an .exe file - make sure associated with Wine program loader

========================================================================Install Quicken ======================================================================== Skip the R5 update - sometimes it fails, sometimes it works, sometimes Quicken won't start after the update

(2011-08-06 - R5 update worked this time, with Wine 1.3.25, IE6, online update)

To disable registration prompt

  1. Hold the CTRL + SHIFT key. 2. Click on the Online menu on the top menu bar, then select One Step Update. 3. Click OK. You will no longer be prompted for registration.

FYI - You may need to fix the launcher / Gnome menu to read something like... wine "/home//.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Quicken/qw.exe"

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Rob Lindauer

Thanks for the reply.

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Why would I want to install IE??

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Bob

Because there are places inside of Quicken where it pops up a web browser - and that web browser is a programmatically called version of IE. Yep, Quicken is hard-wired for IE, sorry to say.

Now, if you've got that browser window up, and you click on the "Full Browser" button, then you get the default browser du jour as recognized by whatever OS you're running.

I'm pretty sure that's how it works on Windows because, well, it's pretty obvious. I've never seen how it works on the MAC OS's, but I'm pretty sure IE is available on the MAC, albeit an old, decrepit version no doubt.

Ken Becker

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Ken

Just a FYI (I'm not the original poster). I'm using Quicken Deluxe

2009 with wine under Ubuntu 10.10 following Rob's instructions without major issue.

I don't think I installed anything from winetricks. The default Ubuntu installation seemed to already include the fonts, etc.

I don't think I installed any version of IE either.

Wine does display a number of messages about unimplemented functions. These seem to be harmless. Examples include:

fixme:ole:TLB_ReadTypeLib Header type magic 0x00905a4d not supported. err:ole:TLB_ReadTypeLib Loading of typelib L"C:\\Program Files\\Quicken\\QWUTIL.dll" failed with error 0 err:ole:TLB_ReadTypeLib Loading of typelib L"C:\\Program Files\\Quicken\\QWUTIL.tlb" failed with error 2 fixme:xrender:XRender_AlphaBlend Unable to AlphaBlend without Xrender

I do download from several Financial Institutions with both Direct Connect and Web Connect. This works fine.

There are various dialog boxes which use fonts of the wrong size and/or character set. At least one place I seldom go (edit bill reminder?) seems to use a character set for a language I don't recognize for some help text. I think I did try various winetricks to solve this problem without seeing any change in behavior. Knowing how Windows quicken works helps for these places.

I have tried using X forwarding (in ssh) for the wine/quicken output. This works okay when I'm local to the remote system but doesn't work very well when I'm traveling.

I've recently tried running wine/quicken inside a VNC session. This seems to work better for remote access. Some of the Quicken Icons don't get displayed (one step update drop down next to "Accounts" in the left sidebar and icons showing pending transactions in the left sidebar).

Quicken requires a bigger display than I have on my Netbook and some dialog boxes end up too tall for the display (I assume this is also an issues for Windows Netbooks). With VNC I can use a larger virtual screen and scroll the display.

I have tried updating to Quicken 2012 and ran into problems. So far I haven't resolved them and and remaining with 2009 for now. After my next trip I will probably try again (including updating Ubuntu and Wine if necessary).

I'm glad I now don't need to dual boot into windows just to run quicken. I'm also glad to be able to leave quicken on a home server instead of carrying it around on a laptop when I travel.

Stuart Barkley

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Stuart Barkley

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