Quicken

What works

On a fresh installation of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 32-bit and Wine 1.4, I performed the following steps to install Quicken 2012 Premier:

1. Used winetricks to install the following: dotnet20, ie6, msls31, gdiplus
2. Ran winecfg, went to 'Libraries' and added an override for msls31
3. Set Windows Version to Vista

The installation of Quicken 2012 ran smoothly and downloaded updates as expected.

What does not

Everything.  Upon initially running Quicken 2012 and seeing the dialog for me to either set up new Quicken data or open existing Quicken data, as soon as I get to the point there I should be allowed to choose a file, the program locks up my entire display (all four workspaces) and eventually crashes.  I've tried changing the Windows version in Wine from XP, to Vista, to 7 and every time the same thing happens.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Hardware tested

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Additional Comments

From http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=30158

• vcrun6 msls31 and gdiplus all seem unnecessary, and in fact gdi seems to significantly slow down Quicken.   Microsoft fonts, Internet Explorer 6 or higher and .Net 2 or higher seem to be all that's needed with wine 1.6 or higher.
  
• Manual and automatic updates can fail if host system is connected to the internet during original installation and during any automatic or manually downloaded & applied updates.  Try updating manually with host internet disabled.  Quicken automatic software updates should be disabled.
• If running on a 64 bit machine, force 32 bit in wine via environment variable as some versions of wine have issues on 64 bit machines. (eg "WINEARCH=win32 wine ....")
• If installing on a multiple core system, run all operations on a single core only as multiple core operations do not seem to be well managed under wine + Quicken.  (eg, "numactl --physcpubind=+1  wine ...")