Quicken

What works

Installation and basic functionality (the things that I do) all work.  That includes the download and installation of program updates, manual changes, downloading transactions from banks and investment brokers, downloading stock quotes and performing data backups to disk.

What does not

There are prerequisite tasks that must be performed using the winetricks utility in order to allow the Quicken installation to complete successfully.

The Quicken window is not particularly "well-behaved" in my Gnome desktop but these are minor inconveniences in my view:

1. The Quicken window does not resize or move smoothly, there is lots of break-up and jerkiness in the window while it's being moved or resized.
2. When Quicken pops up a small prompt window overlaying the main window, the main underlying window is disabled.  That's as expected.  What isn't as expected is the fact that any other application windows that exist in the same area of the desktop as the Quicken windows are also disabled, even when they have focus and have been brought to the front.  These windows must be moved to an area of the desktop completely outside the area occupied by the Quicken window before one can interact with the applications running in them.
3. After installation, the window initially opens in full-screen mode and must be resized.  It does remember its size and location in subsequent runs.

2021-12-29: Quicken R37.62 displays two pop-up windows during startup that say, "Failed to resolve function RaiseFailFastException in KERNEL32.dll."  This due to the fact that this function is not implemented in Wine.  Ignoring this error message and clicking "OK" does not seem to cause any problems running Quicken.  See bug #46155 for a discussion of what may, or may not, be done to fix this problem.

Workarounds

To successfully install Quicken 2020 Premier one must perform the same steps that Paul Sands outlined in his entry for Quicken 2017 Deluxe:

• Create a new 32-bit wine prefix for the Quicken installation and install MS .Net Framework 4.6.1 using winetricks:

  
  

  $ WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.quicken-wine winetricks -q --force dotnet461

• Change the Direct Draw Renderer to GDI using winetricks:

  
  

  $ WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.quicken-wine winetricks settings ddr=gdi

• Patch the Quicken installer to prevent it from attempting to install the PDF print driver:

  
  

  $ cd /path/to/installer/file
  $ 7za x Quicken.exe
  $ perl -pi.bak -0777e 's/NOT REMOVE="ALL"InstallPDFDriver/NOT_REMOVE="ALL"InstallPDFDriver/' "DISK1/Quicken.msi"

• Run the Setup.exe installer application:

  
  

  $ WINEPREFIX=~/.quicken-wine wine DISK1/Setup.exe

What was not tested

Advanced functions like bill paying and synchronizing personal financial data to the Quicken web site were not tested.  These are functions that I don't use.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Nvidia
• Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

• I have used Quicken 2020 this way with Wine 5.0 - 6.21 on Fedora 30 - 35.
• I keep Quicken updated to the latest release via subscription.  As of this writing, Quicken Premier is at version R37.62.
• I use the proprietary Nvidia drivers from the rpmfusion repository for my graphics card.  The 32-bit versions of the driver libraries package must be installed for 32-bit apps like Quicken that use the libGL libraries.  On rpmfusion that's the xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686, package.  Wine will produce messages that include text like "libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast" if you forget to do this.
• After installation, the Quicken.desktop file can be found at ${HOME}/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/Quicken/Quicken.desktop
• The Quicken icon file can be found at ${HOME}/${WINEPREFIX}/drive_c/Program Files/Quicken/quicken.ico
• This ImageMagick command will extract six different-sized PNG icon files from Quicken.ico:

  
  

  $ convert Quicken.ico quicken.png