TurboTax

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.

I had an old wine dir that wasn't in sync with 0.9.9. Cleaning that
and installing appears to have worked with no manual configuration.

I do have msttcorefonts installed, but I don't know if that was needed.

Based on this comment, I removed the abovementioned Testing Results.

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).

Error Code: -5009 : 0x800706e6
Error Information:
>Ctor\ObjectWrapper.cpp (396)
>Kernel\Component.cpp (1163)
>Kernel\CABFile.cpp (384)
>SetupDLL\SetupDLL.cpp (1526)
pAPP:TurboTax Deluxe 2005
PVENDOR:Intuit Inc.
PGUID:d14e3d40-2004-11d3-bfbf-00a0248f3321
$11.0.0.28844
@Windows 98 A (67766446) IE 6.0.2800.1106

I am new to wine and getting it configured and running. Any suggstions or ideas? If I had to guess, I would say a library but have not clue.

Let me know.

Thanks!

Regards,
Mike

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.

In addition to the above, I had to do some more things to make PDF generation work.

-- In WineTools, install Microsoft Core Fonts. I'm not sure which ones you need, but maybe Courier and Times.
-- Copy the Turbotax fonts from X:/Fonts into C:/Windows/Fonts (where X is the CD)

Also, the state download can get fubar'd if you do things in the wrong order. The first time you run TurboTax, do:
-- Start a new return.
-- Online..Download State. (It will ask you if you want to save; say no)
-- After it restarts, Start a new return.
-- Online..Updates (It will ask you again if you want to save; say no again)
-- Then use it like normal.