Comments on: Running Quicken Premier 2008 on Linux with Wine

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:18:32 +0000

Hi Mike,
You should open a bug at winehq. If you post the full stack trace and debug info perhaps someone will be able to help.

-Ben

By: mike

mike — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:13:21 +0000

For several months now, I’ve actually been using Quicken 2008 to download my transactions. Seems very recently (like after my ubuntu upgrade from Hardy 8.04 to Intrepid 8.10), Quicken dies with a Crash/”Com Error” message when I try to open any data file.

Any thoughts? I’ve tried going back to the 2.6.24 kernel, downgrading Wine and trying various versions. Looks like it’s not finding the DLLs.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:54:40 +0000

Thanks for the update Dan. I’ve updated the blog post to reflect the latest version.
Also, I’m trying to keep up with Henri’s work on schannel, so I’ll try to help ensure it works for Quicken.

By: Dan Kegel

Dan Kegel — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:05:57 +0000

The Quicken error
wine: Call from 0×7b844dd0 to unimplemented function gdiplus.dll.GdipSetClipPath, aborting
should be fixed in wine-1.1.6. See http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13585

Also, Wine is now growing schannel support. I don’t know when it will be mature enough for Quicken.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:52:14 +0000

Thanks for the tip Dan. The workaround does indeed get Quicken running. Hopefully schannel will be implemented sometime soon and then it will be able to connect to the internet as well. I’ll continue to update this post as the steps to get it running change due to new features, regressions, etc.

By: Dan Kegel

Dan Kegel — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:42:46 +0000

Easiest way to get gdiplus for some folks is probably to use winetricks, see http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks

For instance:
wget kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sh winetricks gdiplus

I’m a bit skeptical, though. The log posted in http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13585
sounds more like an X error than a gdiplus error?