Running Quicken 2020 Premier Under Wine - Revision history

Dlk at 13:28, 28 March 2020

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Desktop Setup

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Installation Instructions

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 ===NVidia Drivers===
-I use the Nvidia proprietary drivers for my graphics card.  The 32-bit versions of the driver libraries package, on Fedora that's the nvidia-driver-libs.i686 package, must be installed for 32-bit apps that use the libGL libraries.  Wine will produce messages that include text like "libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast" if you forget to do this.
+I use the proprietary drivers from Nvidia's fedora-nvidia repository for my graphics card.  The 32-bit versions of the driver libraries package, on fedora-nvidia that's the nvidia-driver-libs.i686 package, must be installed for 32-bit apps that use the libGL libraries.  Wine will produce messages that include text like "libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast" if you forget to do this.
 ===Desktop Setup===

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	$ WINEPREFIX=~/.quicken-wine wine DISK1/Setup.exe		$ WINEPREFIX=~/.quicken-wine wine DISK1/Setup.exe
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		+	===NVidia Drivers===
		+
		+	I use the Nvidia proprietary drivers for my graphics card. The 32-bit versions of the driver libraries package, on Fedora that's the nvidia-driver-libs.i686 package, must be installed for 32-bit apps that use the libGL libraries. Wine will produce messages that include text like "libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast" if you forget to do this.

	===Desktop Setup===		===Desktop Setup===

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 ===Desktop Setup===
-My $HOME/.local/share/applications/quicken.desktop:
+The Quicken.desktop file can be found at ${HOME}/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/Quicken/Quicken.desktop
-  [Desktop Entry]
+The Quicken icon file can be found at ${HOME}/${WINEPREFIX}/drive_c/Program Files/Quicken/quicken.ico
-  Name=Quicken
+This command will extract six different-sized PNG icons files from Quicken.ico
-To extract six different-sized PNG icon files from the Windows ICO file:
+   convert Quicken.ico quicken.png
 __NOTOC__
 [[Category:Linux]]

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	convert /home/dlk/.quicken-wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Quicken/quicken.ico Quicken.png		convert /home/dlk/.quicken-wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Quicken/quicken.ico Quicken.png
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		+	__NOTOC__
		+	[[Category:Linux]]

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	To extract six different-sized PNG icon files from the Windows ICO file:		To extract six different-sized PNG icon files from the Windows ICO file:

−	convert /home/dlk/.quicken-wine/drive_c/Program Files/Quicken/quicken.ico Quicken.png	+	convert /home/dlk/.quicken-wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Quicken/quicken.ico Quicken.png

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    StartupWMClass=qw.exe
-To extract six different-sized icon files from the Windows ICO file:
+To extract six different-sized PNG icon files from the Windows ICO file:
    convert /home/dlk/.quicken-wine/drive_c/Program Files/Quicken/quicken.ico Quicken.png

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	$ WINEPREFIX=~/.quicken-wine wine DISK1/Setup.exe		$ WINEPREFIX=~/.quicken-wine wine DISK1/Setup.exe
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		+	===Desktop Setup===
		+
		+	My $HOME/.local/share/applications/quicken.desktop:
		+
		+	[Desktop Entry]
		+	Name=Quicken
		+	Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/dlk/.quicken-wine" /usr/bin/wine C:\\\\windows\\\\command\\\\start.exe /Unix /home/dlk/.quicken-wine/dosdevices/c:/users/dlk/Start\\ Menu/Programs/Quicken/Quicken.lnk
		+	Type=Application
		+	StartupNotify=true
		+	Icon=/home/dlk/Icons/Quicken.png
		+	StartupWMClass=qw.exe
		+
		+	To extract the icon file set from the Windows ICO file:
		+
		+	convert /home/dlk/.quicken-wine/drive_c/Program Files/Quicken/quicken.ico Quicken.png

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−	(I sent this information into the WineHQ.com ~~AppDatabase~~ but they have ignored my submission, so I posted it here so that I won't forget it.)	+	(I sent this information into the WineHQ.com AppDB but they have ignored my submission, so I posted it here so that I won't forget it.)

	Quicken runs well enough under Wine that I've stopped using a KVM virtual machine to run it and now do it this way.		Quicken runs well enough under Wine that I've stopped using a KVM virtual machine to run it and now do it this way.

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	===Installation Instructions===		===Installation Instructions===
		+	These instructions were originally documented by Paul Sands in the [https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=37579 WineHQ AppDB entry for Quicken 2017 Deluxe].
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	1. Create a new 32-bit wine prefix for the Quicken installation and install MS .Net Framework 4.6.1 using winetricks:		1. Create a new 32-bit wine prefix for the Quicken installation and install MS .Net Framework 4.6.1 using winetricks: