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Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)
What works
Install, Updates, multiple state download and updates, interview and forms, help, export to PDF
What does not
Keystrokes are broken in a lot of dialogs: The arrow keys or delete key may not work, so you have to use the mouse sometimes to manage text. Curiously, the opposite is true of pop-up help dialogs: You can't interact with them using the mouse at all, you have to use the keyboard.
What was not tested
e-filing, printing.
Additional Comments
See topical comments about things I had to do to make it work.
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Latest TurboTax Install
by Mike White on Friday March 24th 2006, 16:43
After having deleted ~/.wine several times. I think that I have a wine setup that is ready to install TurboTax. I thought that I had a working IE but found out that it did not run. I posted a comment on what I did to get it working. In short I started from scratch and used winetools (I did not run winecfg) but I downloaded ie60sp1.exe and install it using wine (I did not use the winetools). I am now trying to run TurbTax install. I get the install shield popup and see it trying (it gets to the last bar then gives me:
Unhandled Exception
Error Number: 0x80040706
Description: Object reference not set
Setup will not terminate.
Any ideas on what this is and how to get TurboTax installed. I do not have any other software installed (except for the base system as specified in winetools). Do I need the windows system software, TT core fonts? I am installing by doing a wine setup from the CDROM. Can one install TurboTax from winetools?
Any help is greatly appreciated. I am a little lost in how to trouble shoot.
TurboTax 2005 on Wine 0.9.10 on Fedora Core 4
by Mike White on Saturday March 18th 2006, 13:18
Anyone had any luck with installing and running Turbotax on Fedora Core 4 with the latest Wine (0.9.10)? I was able to run winetools and load the base setup (Ariel font, DCOM98, MFC 4.x and IE6 SP1; I could not load IE6 untile the new release of wine 0.9.10; which is great; thanks wine developers). I have followed Ian's notes with no luck. In addition I tried the directions from Frank's Corner for an install shield program; still no luck). I get the install shield wizard pop up and I see that it tries to install; It gets to the last bar of the installshield wizard process then gives me the below error).
Got it working
by Ian Turner on Sunday February 12th 2006, 18:37
It didn't work out-of-the-box for me, but I got it working. All I did was to set things up with WineTools first. I chose:
-- Base Setup/Create a Fake Windows drive
-- Base Setup/Truetype Font Arial
-- Base Setup/DCOM98
-- Base Setup/MFC 4.x
-- Base Setup/IE 6
-- Windows System Software/VB6 Runtime (maybe not required)
-- Windows System Software/MDAC 2.8 & Jet 4.0
-- Windows System Software/MSXML 4.0
-- Windows System Software/Windows Script 4.6 (maybe not required)
-- Windows System Software/Common Controls 5.0 (maybe not required)
Then I ran the installer, which ran with exactly 1 flaw (license agreement file not found). The program itself seems to work just fine.
