[cw-discuss] Re: Quicken Premier 2005 & CXO 5.0.3

[Mark Knecht]

Scott,
   Thanks. Interesting results. I'll have to go back and give it a try
one of these days.

   We moved finance off of Linux and over to an underutilized Mac. No
going back now...

Cheers,
Mark

On 10/18/06, Scott G. Hall <ScottGHall at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> "Mark Knecht" <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> >    Maybe someone at Codeweavers would want to look into whether
> > recent changes in Wine or CXO itself have broken new Quicken 2005
> > installs. I do not remember having these problems earlier. If
> > anyone would like specific information please contact me and I'll
> > try to send it along. Having spent cash on a new version of
> > Quicken I am unmotivated at this point to spend very much time on
> > this.
>
> I too had this same install scenario, but with a slightly different
> experience.  Under CXO 5.0.0 Pro, Quicken 2005 Premier installed just
> fine, and I have been using it extensively -- albeight Quicken's
> reports are broken in spots.
>
> I just upgraded to CXO 5.0.3 Pro, and the same Quicken 2005 Premier
> installed, but the CXO installer said that there was an error and
> the install failed.  (I have the log file available if anybody wants
> it)  However, the menu entries were made, and when I run Quicken,
> it seems to run the same as before.
>
> The reason I suspect that the installer thought the install failed
> is this:  upon installation, Quicken's installer program asks if
> you want to run Quicken immediately.  Well my finances are important
> and I needed to point the program to where my data was mounted, so
> of course I wanted to run it right away and check it out.  When I
> was done, I just exited the program -- I'll bet that the program's
> exit code was such that the CXO installer thought there was a problem
> indicated such (remember I was running as root, not a regular user
> at the time).  Another possibility is that no KDE desktop item was
> was created for root -- maybe the CXO installer had a problem writing
> it.  However, the desktop item and menu items were created just fine
> for regular users, and I always manually delete the desktop and menu
> items for root anyway.
>
> --
> Scott G. Hall
> Raleigh, NC, USA
> ScottGHall at BellSouth.Net
>
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