ETax

What works

Pre-fill
Field Editing
Form Preview
Printing
Navigation
Submission

What does not

Help Dialogs

Workarounds

What was not tested

Everything Else

Hardware tested

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• Driver:

Additional Comments

Installed msxml4 and ie7 via winetricks Ran inside a 32-bit Wine Environment using WINEARCH. Using AwesomeWM; screen artefacts left by application. Parts of application lost visibility on resize, mouse-over empty areas revealed them.

The following method was tested on Linux Mint 15 and Arch Linux, but should work on other distros such as Ubuntu.

From a command prompt:

winetricks msxml4
wget http://www.ato.gov.au/misc/downloads/etax2013/etax2013_1.msi
msiexec /i etax2013_1.msi

This downloads and installs the Microsoft XML libraries, downloads the ETax installer and then runs the installer package.

The in-built help system will not work, however opening the HTML file in Firefox (Chromium does not work) will let you access all the help documents.

For a 64-bit Wine installation run:

firefox '~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/etax2013/help/client_nav.html'

For a 32-bit Wine installation run:

firefox '~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/etax2013/help/client_nav.html'

The inbuilt updater does actually download an updated installer package. The program is supposed to exit and run this new installer, however the new installer never launches.

After ETax exits, run the following command to launch the installer manually:

msiexec /a ~/.wine/drive_c/users/$USER/Temp/ETAX/etax2013_1.msi

Alternatively, repeat the original installation process (except MSXML4):

wget http://www.ato.gov.au/misc/downloads/etax2013/etax2013_1.msi
msiexec /i etax2013_1.msi

For testing purposes the following tax file number can be used:

123456782