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What works
Installation after disabling the automatic installation of vcredist via command line parameters (--help gives a list of valid parameters)
What does not
Filling a form, the application just crashes silently
What was not tested
The forms, data upload to tax office
Additional Comments
It runs only partially, the main functionality is not useable. It seems the software has been switched to VC2008/.NET. Previous versions worked with VC6.0 runtimes and a few other libraries (MSXML, DAO) installed via winetricks.
Note: If after following one of the instructions below the buttons in the GUI don't show any text, you have to switch to a newer version of Wine (older ones including v1.0.1 have problems with font display on Qt4 buttons)
Instructions for Wine 1.1.37 and earlier
First, make sure to start with a clean WINEPREFIX
Then do, in the following order:
Get winetricks from http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks and set it executable
Run winetricks with the 'tahoma' target
Now, install ElsterFormular via the ElsterFormular2009-Setup.exe
Next, either run winetricks with the 'win98' target or set the Windows version to 'Windows 98' in winecfg
You should now be able to run elfostarter.exe in the bin/ directory of ElsterFormular. Happy taxpaying!
Note: If you are compiling Wine from source, you can apply the patch in the bug report linked to above. But if your computer explodes, don't blame me
Instructions for Wine 1.1.38 and later
First, make sure to start with a clean WINEPREFIX
Then do, in the following order:
Get winetricks from http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks and set it executable
Run winetricks with the 'vcrun6' target
Now, install ElsterFormular via the ElsterFormular2009-Setup.exe
You should now be able to run elfostarter.exe in the bin/ directory of ElsterFormular. Happy taxpaying!
Note:If fonts look jagged, you might want to try the 'tahoma' or even the 'allfonts' target from winetricks
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This runs now out of the box
by Joerg Schiermeier on Monday November 28th 2011, 19:25
This recommendations are not longer necessary:
Elster runs out of the box. Also it installs the used runtime from VC2008 by itself, if they are missing. Winetricks is not longer usefull for this application.
This was tested with:
-wine v1.3.33
-Elster Einkommensteuer 2009/2010 v12.4.9.7094p, published: 2011-09-26
-wine-Windowsversion set to *WindowsXP* via winecfg
in case you need MSI 3.1
by Dietmar on Saturday March 6th 2010, 11:33
in case you need MSI 3.1 (so the installer complains):
- download from the microsoft website
- it did not want to install on my machine with wine so:
- cabextract to [wine]windows/system32
Note: in wine 1.0.1 ElsterFormular did not work at all, 1.3.40 worked fine.
