Quicken 2008 using Wine - installed and working

[ironmantis7x]

Hey -- I just got Quicken 2008 to install and work in Kubuntu 8.10 with KDE 4.2!!

Just thought I would share!!!

ironmantis7x

[muzicman0]

Re: Quicken 2008 using Wine - installed and working

did you have to do anything special? Does it still seem to be working well?

[claydoh]

Re: Quicken 2008 using Wine - installed and working

Depending on what your needs are, I have a ppa archive for the Kmymoney2 home financial program.
https://edge.launchpad.net/~claydoh/+archive/ppa
My versions are from the latest codebase, and have ofx direct-download capabilities built-in (unlike the standard Ubuntu/Debian packages)
Might be worth checking out

[The Liquidator]

Re: Quicken 2008 using Wine - installed and working

I'm using quicken 2002 with Wine - works fine here (although I've not done online banking with it and I don't get the cash register sound!).

I've been questioning for some time now whether to move to either Gnucash or KMymoney. I have several accounts of different types and standing orders. Any views on which would be better for the job? I have to add that a couple of months ago I did try to import a QIF file into Kmymoney and it didn't seem to work too well.

[PhilT]

Re: Quicken 2008 using Wine - installed and working

Hi All,

I've tried several vesions of KMyMoney (including Claydoh's ppa). On all of them the Help files are unavailable. The message says khelpcenter is not there; but it is. Is this a problem with KDE4.2 as I notice that KMyMoney is built for kde3.5.

Can the help files be activated somehow?

[The Liquidator]

Re: Quicken 2008 using Wine - installed and working

My perception is that if you are running any kde3 application in kde4, the help won't work.

Ian

[sithlord48]

Re: Quicken 2008 using Wine - installed and working

this is wonderful news hopefully quickbooks will work w/ wine soon too.it aparently requires IE6 and don't reconize ie4linux as satisifying the requirement , no luck w/ the wine-gekko package either... or even better if ne one know a way for me to copy my company data to a format that i could use w/ kmymoney / lemon pos (we use qbpos too, so i think were stuck with it for the time being.)

[The Liquidator]

Re: Quicken 2008 using Wine - installed and working

If my Google research is right, Quickbooks uses IIF format whilst Quicken uses QIF. Nice stitch up! I have seen loads of converters from QIF to IIF but none the other way around. What format(s) can quickbooks export in?

I suspect none. However if it can export to QIF then as I assume you're talking about a full-blown set of corporate accounts rather than home banking then I think you should be looking at gnucash, although if you can't export to some format other than IIF then I think you might be in for fun and games.

Just my 2 pence worth

[sithlord48]

Re: Quicken 2008 using Wine - installed and working

if memory serves correctly it can't import much of ne thing other then iif files, will check @ work tomarrow

[The Liquidator]

Re: Quicken 2008 using Wine - installed and working

Is it a full-blown accounts package you are after?

[sithlord48]

Re: Quicken 2008 using Wine - installed and working

well i would like to have qb 2008 and qb point of sale perhaps replaced by something more linux friendly. the hurdle so far is getting the data out

[The Liquidator]

Re: Quicken 2008 using Wine - installed and working

I suppose that's the whole point of having no export options - you have to do it all manually which makes it a very, very, big job so the incentive is not to move.

I'll keep my ear to the ground and if I hear anything of use to you I'll let you know.

[sithlord48]

Re: Quicken 2008 using Wine - installed and working

sweet thanks ...