Failure-Quicken 2012 NOT Working on Ubuntu 10.04 3
A few months ago, I purchased Quicken 2012 Home & Business with the intent of upgrading my Quicken 2008 version which runs pretty well under Linux in WINE. I finally got around to trying to get it working. I’m sad to report that after over 8 hours of attempts, I was unable to get Quicken 2012 to startup and stay running for more than 10 seconds before crashing under WINE. Sorry.
There are instructions over at the WineHQ to get Quicken 2012 running. These did not work for me.
For most readers, that is enough to move along.
My Setup
I use LTS versions of Ubuntu 10.04 with LXDE. Constantly updating to the latest desktop is not for me. Further, Ubuntu 11.04 crashed too much on my system to be considered at all. I’m hopeful that Ubuntu 12.04 works for me, though I must admit that I have not even played with Ubuntu 11.10 at all.
- wine-1.1.42 – `wine —version`
- 2.6.32-37-generic #81-Ubuntu SMP i686 – `uname -a`
- Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS – `more /etc/lsb-release`
My 1st Attempt
I did take very careful notes of the things I did in this failed attempt. A quick summary:
- More than 15 WineTricks were used
- Manual copying of Win32 DLLs was required to get multiple crashes solved.
- Installation did not appear to be a problem. The install worked fine with little effort.
I looked on the WineHQ for tips and saw where a few people could not get it working and others seemed to claim it just worked, but didn’t provide any detailed steps. I think one of the guys that got it working was actually running OSX. I did not attempt to get it working under OSX.
In the last few weeks, a few others have claimed to get it working using Wine v1.3.37 on 11.10. This is enough for me to look at that new version. I’m downloading the server now and will setup a desktop environment inside a VM today. Hopefully, this article will be deleted in a few days at most.
The last few weeks, I’ve tried to get Quicken 2012 working using Ubuntu 11.10 and have failed. Sure, it installs and it gets further running until the GUI locks up when attempting to open any file chooser. By default, Quicken starts full screen. When I try to alt-tab to get another window up – so I can kill the qw.exe process, it doesn’t work. I quickly learned to resize the window and close the program so the new size would be remembered.
I had many hopes this would work. Perhaps when WINE 1.4 is released, things will be better?
For the time being, I’ve loaded Quicken 2012 onto Windows in an encrypted file. That will have to do for now. In a few months, I may revisit this and try again.
Sniff, sniff.
I have not managed to get Quicken (2011) working on any wine version later than 1.3.28.
There is a new update. Over at WineHQ, Chris A has reported that Quicken 2012 Deluxe works under Fedora x64.
He did a few things differently/additional inside Winecfg
These changes didn’t help me, but they may help others.
BTW, I’ve attempted to provide data over at WineHQ, but they don’t seem to like my handle and reject the input. At least that seems to be the issue from what I can see. Oh, well.