Solved-Quicken 2011 Working on Linux 39

Posted by JD 11/29/2010 at 06:41

This article is extremely out of date and probably not very useful for steps to get quicken working on current Linux releases.

For many people, Quicken is the program that prevents them from switching to Linux 100%. This week, I finally took the time to install Quicken 2011 Premium under Linux Lubuntu 10.04 LTS and get it working very nicely.

Below are the steps and comments for how to accomplish this. I did reference the WINE-HQ Quicken App Instructions to make it work, but some of those steps were less than clear to me. WINE is Wine Is Not an Emulator.

I’d bet these steps will work for older Quicken versions too. I’ll test it with Quicken Home & Business 2008 in a few days, but expect it will work just fine for the things I do, which are fairly extensive.

I shouldn’t have been surprised that Quicken would work under WINE, heck Microsoft Office 2003 works too (except Outlook).

Be certain to read the comments for alternative methods and updates.

  • Steps updated to remove DotNET v3 install.

These instructions worked for me, but I cannot be responsible if they do not work for you. Use at your own risk. If you already have any WINE programs working, please, please, please, make a backup since performing these operations into an existing WINE config may break the working programs already there.

Quicken is working to a very acceptable level; Silver or Gold, but not quite Platinum level. Even stock price downloads work. I don’t know that I’d trust the automatic program updates that Intuit pushes every few months to work without having a perfect backup of my ~/.wine/ directory first, but I’d certainly allow it to run the first time just to see if it works.

Base System Config for the Install

The system used is a Pentium4 w/ 1GB RAM and 160GB disk running Lubuntu 10.04.1 LTS, but any recent distro (2010 or later) should work, just change the installation method for wine for your distro. After that, the instructions are distro agnostic. The test machine was nothing special.

Steps to get Quicken Installed and Running

Install Wine

Installed wine from the Ubuntu 10.04 repository.

sudo apt-get install wine

The installed version of WINE was v1.2. Good enough.
$ wine --version
  wine-1.2

WineTricks – the Key

I installed wintricks from the main location that google found and placed it into my $HOME/bin/ directory.

cd ~/bin 
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
chmod +x winetricks

My ~/bin/ is in my PATH already. Also, I use bash as my shell, which is the default for most installs.

Some of the following commands will open MS-Windows installation programs. Inside those, I accepted the license agreement and the defaults. There is a legal copy of Windows installed on this machine. We simply do not want to use it, maintain it, clean it of viruses, spyware, or bloat going forward.

winetricks fontfix
winetricks corefonts vcrun6
winetricks gdiplus
winetricks dotnet20
There were failures with DotNET 2.x; The second install into a different $HOME did not have any v2.x DotNET failures.

There were failures with v2.x … again that I didn’t worry about. The .NET Runtime Optimization Service is started and paused. message was displayed about 15 times before I \<cntl\>-c ‘ed it and moved on.

winetricks ie6
winetricks ie8
This install seemed to fail … badly, however, the WINE-HQ website was brought up with this command. I guess it was a way to test the IE install? I closed the IE window. 
winecfg

There really wasn’t anything inside to be changed. WinXP is the OS to be emulated.
WineCfg - WinXP
Doing those steps created a WINE base that Quicken 2011 Premium can be installed into.
WineCfg v1.2

Installing Quicken

Now mount the Quicken CDRom someplace on your system and run the install.exe inside WINE.

mount /dev/cdrom /media/Quicken 2011

Run the setup program with 
wine /media/Quicken\ 2011/install.exe

Ran the Quicken installer; the program update download seemed to get stuck … but it wasn’t. Be patient. The Quicken Premier 2011 icon was placed on the desktop (in the $HOME/Desktop/ folder) and double-click starts it up clean.
Quicken Install

Running Quicken

I like to have a shell script to start programs – not just an icon – so I can run them remotely over SSH-X-Forwarding. My Quicken startup script, ~/bin/quicken.sh, is just 1 line:

#!/bin/bash
env WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine" wine "c:\\Program Files\\Quicken\\qw.exe" &

Notice the program you ask WINE to run is relative to a Windows install and that spaces in the path are not escaped.
Quicken 1st Run

So far everything seems to work including stock price updates. Importing data from a 2006 QW data file took about 10 minutes and appeared to get stuck … but it worked. The Quicken window did not update during parts, but the rest of the system – non-WINE – was still responsive.
Quicken Data Import
There are references to using DX9 in other installation instructions. I didn’t do anything related to those or that tool and it didn’t appear to be installed by any of the programs. I do not run Windows games.

On this system, there was ZERO WINE-related anything before starting the install effort, even wine itself had to be installed. After the install and about 10 minutes of testing, I pulled the command history and pasted it into a text file so I’d have it later for this blog entry. The commands are accurate and close to the actual order in which they were run. I don’t game and haven’t used any other WINE installs on this system. The only thing that I changed in this blog was “2010” in the CDROM mounted directory. I double checked that the disk was actually Quicken 2011 – it appears the Intuit QA team missed the CDROM volume label change.

Many of the winetricks installs caused “fixme” errors to be displayed. I ignored them.

It is possible to have multiple WINE installation for each user. This is probably a best practice when you have lots of complex installations for Windows programs that were not trivial to get working. For example, getting MS-Office 2003 to work was fairly easy – install a recent version of WINE and run the MS-Office setup.exe program. Getting Quicken to work is more involved.

Caveats

The following day, I tried to get another Windows program running inside the same WINEPREFIX directory. Adding a few more WineTrick programs for JET-DB broke the Quicken installation. Quicken stopped working. I had setup hourly disk snapshots with Back-In-Time, so recovering the directory from before my latest attempts was easy. It seems that getting WINE configured for Quicken is not trivial and that order matters for installations. Once you have it working, protect that setup, carefully.

WINE can get MS-Windows viruses just like computers running Windows. Be careful using programs in the same WINE install area – especially Internet Explorer.

WINE

WINE is a thin layer of Windows OS APIs that let programs written for MS-Windows run with native performance under Linux. Not every Windows API is implemented and some are not fully implemented. Further, it is just the API, not all the supporting functions that ship with the current operating system, so some programs simply do not work. However, some programs work much faster in WINE than they do in an MS-Windows install on the same physical hardware.

WINE is a less overhead way to run MS-Windows programs rather than using a whole virtual machine solution like KVM or VirtualBox. It also means you don’t have to install a Windows license (although for many programs to work, you do need some MS-Windows add-ons like DotNet which do require a Windows license for use).

WINE works on hardware that doesn’t have VT-x CPU extensions and for machines that don’t have lots of RAM to run the entire virtual machine. A 512MB Linux machine with a Pentuim4 CPU can run small programs in WINE nicely.

Please let me know if these instructions worked for you.

Except 1 Thing ….

A few days later, the Quicken Registration page has been nagging. I finally gave in and decided to register. Only 1 problem – the registration screen displayed complete garbage … as though the desired font for a foreign language did not exist. There were 4 things that appeared to be buttons. None of them worked. Basically, everything works in Quicken – except software registration.

I called Quicken Support and they explained how to disable registration. The confirmation that registration would never be asked for again was good to see. Quicken Support said that no features, downloads, or anything else would break by doing this. I believe that getting Quicken 2011 working under Linux/WINE is solved. Very nice. See the comments for the steps to disable registration nags.

Update 12/2010: Just found a WINE For New Users article. It is tailored for Ubuntu/Debian distros.

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  1. Greg 12/09/2010 at 03:02

    Thanks for this. For 2011 Premier, the following worked:

    winetricks fontfix
    winetricks corefonts vcrun6
    winetricks gdiplus
    winetricks dotnet20
    winecfg (change msvcrt overide to builtin, native)
    winetricks ie6
    winecfg (change font size to 120)

    Install Quicken

  2. Barry 12/18/2010 at 18:12

    There is a way to stop Quicken from nagging you with the registration screen without registering. Just hold down Shift and Ctrl, click on ‘Tools’ in the menu bar, then click on One Step Update. You’ll get a box saying Quicken will no longer prompt you for registration.

  3. JD 12/20/2010 at 17:00

    The log of my Quicken 2008 H&B install … on a different machine than above – Lubuntu 10.04. I followed Greg’s steps. They seem to work just fine.

    Pre-Install Setup
    $ sudo apt-get install wine

    $ wine —version
    wine-1.1.42

    $ cd ~/bin
    $ wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
    $ chmod +x winetricks
    $ wine notepad
    $ winetricks fontfix
    $ winetricks corefonts vcrun6
    $ winetricks gdiplus
    $ winetricks dotnet20
    $ winecfg (edit override for msvcrt to be builtin, then native)
    $ winetricks ie6
    $ winecfg (set screen DPI to 120)
    $ sudo mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom

    Install Quicken 2008
    $ wine /cdrom/install.exe
    I allowed all the program updates to happen – including SP1. My data expects the program to be patched.

    For 2008, the registration nag is stopped with Online — Ctrl+Shift while clicking One Step Update.

    I took a look at the memory used because the program felt slow. QW.exe is using just about 88MB, but had virtual memory of 1.6GB! Scary! Firefox is usually the big hog on this box, but it only grabbed 630MB of RAM. Perhaps a machine reboot will help clean this stuff up?

    I’m not very encouraged to see all the redraw events actually occur. In the WinXP virtual machine on the same physical machine, those events happen so quickly that I don’t see them. Now they are painfully slow. Definitely need to reboot this VM. The reboot did help, but not enough. I’ll run it on this VM for a week or so, but I think it will be migrated to a desktop with more power and not be run in a VM.

    This Lubuntu is a VirtualBox VM where I keep most of my daily work. The host file system is encrypted. The nice thing for me are the automatic nightly rdiff-backups that just work.

  4. Greg 12/22/2010 at 23:07

    Redraws are faster using Windows 7 emulation instead of XP. But it is still slow.

    Also, try DPI of 105 instead of the 120 I previously recommended. Things fit better that way.

  5. JD 12/23/2010 at 00:51

    On my QW2008 install, I have noticed that the buttons just below the menubar are missing – they are there, just not drawn. On the 2011 WINE install from the main article, I think the buttons are drawn, however.

    As to the slow-redraws … this QW2008 install is running with lots of layers. More than most people will have. 

    hardware
    
  Win7 x64
    
     TrueCrypt’d partition
    
        VirtualBox
    
           Lubuntu 10.04 x32
    
                WINE 1.1.42
    
                    Quicken 2008

    Lots of layers.

    On the first install, Lubuntu is running directly on the hardware and the redraws aren’t as slow. That PC has an older P4 CPU and onboard graphics while the newer PC is a Core i5 with ATI graphics and my daily use VM. The VM is so fast that I do not notice that it is actually running in a VM. Further, the VM has 2 CPUs and 2GB of RAM, so there’s no constraints.

    Oracle just released VIrtualBox 4.x – which is supposed to have better graphics accel support. I always wait a few weeks before going to a new release of VBox so a few other people can test it and major bugs can be fixed.

  6. Greg 12/28/2010 at 00:54

    John – Do you have the Tahoma font installed? If so, or it you are not using th gdiplus.dll override, you will have the button problem you describe. See my WineHQ writeup for the latest.

    http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=22198

  7. JD 12/28/2010 at 06:17

    I’ve installed or configured nothing other than what is spelled out here.

    I just looked at the 2011 install … it has all the buttons, but the 2008 install does not. On the 2011 install, I didn’t enable any overrides at all. On that version, the slow redraws and additional screen wipes and redraws are disconcerting to the end user. It is just a P4 after all.

    I’ll have to take a look at the AppDB again. Quicken is something used for 15 minutes a week, so working good enough is my goal. I am a little worried that tax time will become more complex than I’d like.

    …. Ok, so I looked at the AppDB entry. winetricks msls31 didn’t actually install anything that I could see. Looking inside the winecfg-Libraries didn’t show msls-anything on my install. I’m not using the latest WINE here. I have the default version that gets installed by Lubuntu’s repositories.

    No additional fonts installed. ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts/ is fairly limited.

    The buttons just below the menubar are still not drawn.

    $ wine —version
    
wine-1.1.42

    I must admit, changing to Win7 emulation did make everything a little quicker.

  8. Yulem 12/28/2010 at 11:15

    Great work!
    Any chance you want to tackle TurboTax?

  9. JD 12/28/2010 at 12:18

    TurboTax is a non-starter for me since they added DRM over a decade ago. I’m stubborn that way. ;) Since then, I switched to TaxCut … or whatever they call it now. Changing the name to H&R Block-whatever was stupid, IMHO. I will be trying to get that working eventually, but since there is a deadline, I may have to install it into a VM running WinXP.

    Basically, I started by following the AppDB at WinHQ. As I was trying to follow those instructions, I wasn’t positive that I’d done it correctly due to some tiny differences along the way that didn’t match my experience. Greg has been updating the AppDB.

    I’m hopeful that installing TaxCut into my existing WINE install for Quicken will just work. Hopefully. Controlling the WINEPREFIX setting isn’t a big deal for me (or anyone). Just setup a script that starts the programs with whatever prefix you need for a specific tool to work. At this point, I’m only using Quicken inside WINE on this box. That WINEPREFIX seems to be the best way to control the different requirements for each program.

    I really wish that software developers like Intuit and other business software makers would spend a few days getting their programs running under WINE. If you are the developer of a program, you’ll recognize the errors immediately and be able to solve most of them with winetricks easily.

  10. Greg 12/28/2010 at 23:55

    The suggested install instructions at WineHQ have been updated, and the results (for me) are quite good. This latest method is a little more complicated, but it corrects several small annoyances (mostly “bad” fonts and rendering errors) evident in the previous installs.

    http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=22198

    If anyone has any issues, suggestions, or questions, I monitor page, and would be glad to offer help.

  11. Yulem 01/01/2011 at 15:37

    Thanks,
    I agree with you about the DRM.
    No doubt companies like Intuit have no incentive to work with the OpenSource community but it would be nice if just a few would simply not work against us.
    I’ll work on TurboTax under Wine this year as it’s reported to work.

  12. Yulem 01/01/2011 at 15:59

    Thanks,
    I’ll probably try TurboTax if I get Quicken working.
    If I’m successful I’ll let y’all know.

  13. Shayne 02/15/2011 at 22:04

    I get a Crash Com Error when opening Quicken 2011. Any idea how to resolve this?

  14. Greg 02/16/2011 at 16:53

    @Shayne – winetricks msls31

    See the instructions at WineHQ

    http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=22198

  15. Shayne 02/17/2011 at 18:04

    Can you please explain what Quicken told you via the phone? I am having a similar issue with the registration. It appears as though a font is not installed properly.

  16. JD 02/17/2011 at 18:14

    @Shayne – the comments above provide details to bypass registration.

  17. A 02/20/2011 at 19:23

    wow… thanks so much for the guide! Everything worked smoothly! dotnet20 installed w/o a hitch, 30 same problem as above. Quicken now starts!! Awesome, thanks!!

  18. A 02/28/2011 at 21:06

    Ok, I’ve run into a BIG problem. Has anyone been able to open the same QDF in native Windows with that was saved with Quicken 2011 Linux?

    I saved my file in Quicken 2011 (linux) and now cannot open that same file with Quicken 2011 running in Windows. I get “can’t open file” error. I’m thinking it’s having a problem reading a linux path or something inside the QDF file. Anyone have this problem?

  19. JD 03/01/2011 at 05:55

    Can’t open file from Windows error.

    I wouldn’t try to open those files directly – I’d use the “backup” tool and try those backup files instead.

    When I do my taxes, I’ll attempt to read the Quicken files on Windows with TaxCut. We shall see.

  20. Demi 03/03/2011 at 00:47

    I get to the point where Quicken loads and validates my QDF file. Everything seems to be fine, but at the end, I get an error message that it can’t load the file, call Quicken support. One other thing, the confirmation boxes that pop up after I elect to install data, for instance, are blank. They still work when clicked on. I am using Quicken Deluxe 2011; Wine is 1.3.14. Thanks!

  21. A 03/03/2011 at 22:11

    yeah, I’ve done EVERYTHING possible within Quicken so far… Backup, Validate, Super Validate… nothing. I have a strong feeling it may be due to the way wine writes the file like line feeds or something. Can’t figure it out…

  22. Greg 03/04/2011 at 14:22

    @Demi – I use the same file from both operating systems without problem. To me it seems as though the file is locked on the Linux side, therefore the Windows side cannot open it?

  23. Demi 03/10/2011 at 18:39

    I reloaded from a backup file from my window’s install of Quick Deluxe 2011. It loaded that no problem. I also added the winetricks suggested on this page, but not mentioned on WineHQ: ‘winetricks corefonts vcrun6’. The popup box I that I couldn’t read now had the message: You have no items due or pending, etc. Quicken updated itself, and one step update worked. The only thing I that didn’t work was a popup during one step update. It was a notice from my bank about changing their server name. I remembered the notice from windows. It just had a few garbage characters. I can live with that. Thanks so much for this contribution! Quicken was the one thing keeping me from staying on linux full-time.

  24. Demi 03/10/2011 at 18:47

    Greg, you still recommend that winetricks fontfix not be installed, right? Also, are you using one Qdata file on, say on an NTFS partition, for both windows and linux?
    Cheers!

  25. Arcus 03/28/2011 at 08:18

    Ed: Oops. This morning I was cleaning out the spam comments and accidentally deleted an on-topic comment from Arcus
    Sorry for the mistake. I retrieved the entire post (it was a manual process), which follows:

    Hi comunity, has anybody tried to install Quicken 2012 yet ? With my Ubuntu 10.10 an Wine 1.3.1 the setup crashes instantly without any informative message.

    On my wine Quicken 2002 works without problems.

    Regards
    Arcus

  26. JD 03/28/2011 at 08:19

    I have not, but did you attempt to follow the instructions above with all the winetricks specified?

  27. JD 05/09/2011 at 11:30

    This week, I’ve been migrating my daily use virtual machine from Lubuntu 10.04 to Ubuntu 11.04, Natty. With that comes the change from Wine v1.2.0 to v1.2.2. I used the default wine package, not the specific packages which are available. I did not load v1.3.×.

    For me, the ~/.wine directory had to be wiped completely before anything would work. Basically, I had to start the installation from scratch. I followed the instructions in the main article, not the shorter ones in the comments. Installation of Quicken again was required. The first time, I selected that updates should be downloaded during the installation. Doing that crashed the installer, so I started over again. I never installed the Billminder Gadget. At the end of the install Launch Quicken 2008 was offered. It failed.

    At this point, Quicken 2008 is not working under Natty for me. I have a few ideas to try still.

  28. wilberfan 09/04/2011 at 02:13

    Man, I got my hopes up with this!! Often, accessing Quicken is the ONLY reason I need to boot into Windows proper, or my VirtualBox Windows…

    I got it working following this thread, but as others have reported, it’s pretty pokey.

    One annoying thing that I don’t think has been mentioned is that I have to aim about an inch below any given button/link to be able to click on it!

    Usable—but barely.

  29. JD 09/04/2011 at 02:48

    @wilberfan – Quicken 2011 isn’t slow here and my mouse points to the exact place expected. Did you follow the tips in the comments above?

    I’ve seen it run nicely on a P4 with 1GB RAM. I actually run Quicken under WINE in a VirtualBox VM. Used it this morning. I don’t run full Ubuntu and definitely not a current build – I’m an LTS LXDE sorta guy.

    If you’d actually like help, please post more details about your situation specifically the versions of tools – wintricks, WINE, OS, RAM, and other specific settings. Greg and I will help as much as we can.

    I will be upgrading my Quicken H&B to 2012 in a month or so – just waiting for it to be released to get that extra year of support from Intuit. I’ve been manually entering weekly stock prices in my 2008 version for a few months. ;)

  30. wilberfan 09/06/2011 at 17:41

    @John – Interesting. I just following this procedure again on a different computer, with a different Linux distro—and once I got it up and running (had some trouble getting dotnet20 installed—and dotnet30 wouldn’t install at all)—it runs beautifully!!

    No lag, no weird have-to-click OFF the button situations.

    The “slow” Quicken is on my AMD64x2 machine with 2GB of RAM. It was on a new Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit OS.

    The “fast” Quicken is on an Intel 32-bit machine (2 or 3 years newer than the AMD) also with 2GB of RAM. The OS is Arch Linux running XFCE.

    I’m too new at this to even begin to guess what might be making Quicken so slow on the AMD64. I do have a 32-bit Linux Mint Debian Edition installed on that same box—it might be interesting to see how Quicken runs under that OS…

    Ditto an Ubuntu 11.10 installed within VirtualBox…

  31. JD 09/06/2011 at 18:29

    Ubuntu 11.04 changed many things in the GUI, so all bets are off.
    I’ve run Quicken under WINE on an x64 server. No issues.

    After trying Ubuntu 11.04 for a few weeks and seeing crashes every day on a system that usually stays up … indefinitely, I removed it. System stability trumps “new” every time around here. I still run many 8.04 LTS servers. LTS server releases receive patches for 5 yrs.

    I seriously doubt AMD/Intel matters. I’d guess your issues are mainly due to Unity and the GUI library changes it involves.

    11.10 is out as a beta recently. If you are a developer, go pull a copy, but if you aren’t, I’d stay on a current release until 12.04 is officially released. There’s a reason Canonical has LTS releases. Neither 11.04 or 11.10 are not being called LTS for good reason. Unless you have a very specific need to run non-LTS versions, don’t.

  32. wilberfan 09/07/2011 at 16:04

    Ah, you’re one of those “stability” guys. Around here, stability is just too boring… ;-) But I agree that Ubuntu’s new Unity interface is a likely culprit for my extreme lagging and weird button offset issue…

    I just tried to get Quicken 2011 running on my 32-bit Linux Mint Debian Edition (on the AMD 64×2 box)—but failed miserably.

    For some odd reason, the only version of wine I could find for this distro was 1.3.27 (based on the advice from here: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=80351&start=0&hilit=wine

    I don’t know if a different wine version would make a difference.

    Setup went per usual—dotnet30 failed, and the ie6 step failed (due to a dead zensoft link. I always have to manually edit winetricks and change the URL. (See Comment #6, here: http://code.google.com/p/winetricks/issues/detail?id=87#c6).

    Everything came to a grinding quit during the Quicken install itself. It wouldn’t complete (failing during the update step?), giving me a dialogue box that didn’t offer any useful information as to why…

  33. JD 09/07/2011 at 21:50

    Did you wipe your ~/.wine directory completely before re-starting and between each attempt?

    You may prefer to just move the ~/.wine to ~/.wine-yymmdd so you don’t really lose any prior work.

    I had issues with newer versions of WINE working with Quicken. Greg from the winehq-Quicken page used to stop by here and help. Have you been over there to see if there are any newer installation instructions?

    I’ve never used Mint – but can’t imagine any issues that wouldn’t be seen on other distros too. My next new desktop OS install may be Mint. Canonical is making me nervous with some recent decisions. That’s probably a few yrs away. ;)

    Good luck!

  34. wilberfan 09/07/2011 at 22:11

    As a follow-up to my previous post, I DID get Quicken installed and running on the 32-bit Arch install (on my AMD64x2) box—but only after downgrading to wine 1.2.

    I’m running Gnome 3 as the DE (which seems very similar to Ubuntu’s Unity)—and am experiencing a similar lag in Quicken (although not quite as bad as under Unity?). No aim-an-inch-below-a-link-to-click-on-it situation in this case, so a slight improvement.

    I’m tempted to install something like XFCE on this box to see if things improve. (My best, almost runs perfectly, install of Quicken so far was on my other box: Arch/XFCE.)

  35. wilberfan 09/07/2011 at 23:56

    Installed XFCE on the Ubuntu 11.04 64bit distro. Quicken is a tad more responsive—but still very laggy. The offset-button-click weirdness disappeared…

  36. wilberfan 09/10/2011 at 00:16

    Unity seems to be the culprit.

    I just ran Quicken under the Ubuntu 11.04 install—in “Classic-no effects” mode, and it works beautifully. No lag. No button-offset issue.

    Yay.

  37. JD 09/30/2011 at 19:24

    This morning I visited the Quicken.com website – hoping to find 2012 Home & Business available. It wasn’t.

    Since I was already there, I looked at the system requirements for 2011:

    • Microsoft .NET 2.0 or later (included in Quicken installer)
    • Windows Installer 3.1 (included in Quicken installer)
    • Internet Explorer 6.0 or later (included in Quicken installer)

    This tells me not to bother trying to load DotNET v3 as listed in the older steps above. I’ve removed that from the main article.

    Update: Ordered 2012 recently – also checked the system requirements. They are the same as for 2011 – that means Quicken should run under WINE following nearly the same instructions above. After I receive the new version, I’ll write an installation article. I’ll probably see if the upgrade process works inside WINE without any changes or new winetricks first. It should.

    I’ll start on Ubuntu 10.04, since that’s my daily use system. I may install 11.10 server with LXDE loaded on top and try it there too, but don’t hold your breath.

  38. Craig 10/27/2011 at 02:53

    I’ve been trying to install Quicken 2006 and looking for a little help. I’m installing 2006 because it’s the (legal) disk I have and the program I’m used to. It was installed before, but I’ve been fiddling with my linux partitions.

    When I run "wine /install.exe it runs most of the way through the progress bar and then complains in the shell I’m using:

    err:msi:extract_cabinet FDICopy failed
    err:msi:ACTION_InstallFiles Failed to extract cabinet: L"Data1.cab"
    err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"InstallFinalize" returned 1603

    Any idea what this is? Thanks a lot.

    Craig

    (BTW, I’m in Ubuntu Natty and Wine is 1.2.2)

  39. JD 10/27/2011 at 10:55

    @Craig – according to the research I just did, that error is a permissions or out of space problem. The last comment here says to delete the installation and try again.

    Sorry, no other ideas. I’m still on Lucid here. When you try again, please log every step taken and post like you were telling someone how to reproduce your outcome exactly.

    I attempted to install Quicken 2008 under Natty and it puked. Since Natty was just a trial install for testing, I didn’t look any further.