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Old 01-29-2005, 02:18 PM   #1
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slack 10, wine & turbotax


Hey folks,
I feel like a complete dork asking anather wine question as LQ is filled with them. But after
search and reading some, I think I'm doing it right, but I can't get things going.

I'm getting ready to do taxes. I used to install 98, do the taxes, and then format the drive,
well, this year I'm trying to do it through wine (to avoid installing windows on general principle).

Anyway, I downloaded wine-2005-01-11 from linuxpackages. Installed it and typed
' winecfg ' , it made a .wine directory, and a window came up asking some questions, and
I went through all that just fine. I can type: ' wine /mnt/cdrom/setup.exe ' and install turbotax.
It even makes an icon on my KDE desktop for it. BUT I get a C++ runtime error when I
try to run it and it stops there.

Do I need to get/install more .dll files or some other windows program(s)? Is there a better
setup program for wine (although the setup seems fine, but the directory structure is a
bit bare) ? Anyone get Turbotax working through wine?

This is on a clean Slack 10 install.
Thanks in advance
-tw
(p.s. this is my first attempt at wine besides dabling with it when I first started using linux,
so go a bit slow if you don't mind )

[EDITED]
Things are going down hill fast. Now I can't even finish the install of TT2004. It askes for
the 2nd CD (state), starts that, but then tells me the 1st one wasn't finished. I might
be going to plan B if this frustration keeps up.

[EDITED]
Please disregard this post. 5 hours of trying just to run 1 program for a week
or so is my limit. Going to plan B. Maybe If I get some time down the road I'll play
around with wine some more. Thanks anyway..

Last edited by tw001_tw; 01-29-2005 at 03:45 PM.
 
Old 01-29-2005, 03:49 PM   #2
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Use H&R Block on the web or visit the TurboTax user forum and search for Linux to find work arounds for the browser issue and do your taxes on the web.
 
Old 01-29-2005, 08:14 PM   #3
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sporks,

I have a lot of 'jazz' with my taxes. I was hoping to use the majority of my existing info.
But thanks for the suggestion.
-tw
 
Old 01-29-2005, 08:15 PM   #4
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Ah, understand.

Just trying to help.
 
  


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