On 28/08/07, Yvonne Everett ye103910@googlemail.com wrote:

Hello

Does anyone have a particular good reference guide/notes perhaps on how to get WINE running? I've tried this before to allow me to use MS Money through Linux but have had several problems. So now I have a completely clean install of Kubuntu 7.04 and am ready to try WINE again for MS Money. Any suggestions before I make a start would be much appreciated.

Well,

You should be able to install the latest version of Wine from the official repositories here:

http://www.winehq.org/site/download-deb

That bit's fairly easy, the hard part is getting the individual applications to work. Looking at the entry in the Wine Application DB for Microsoft Money:

http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=79

It would appear that your best chance would be to use the 2003/2004 version of Money and even then the online features have yet to be confirmed working. What version did you intend to install?

At the end of the day, it's always fiddly getting apps to run on Wine - especially, if they're quite large, like MS Money.

You might find your time is better spent looking at alternatives like GnuCash [www.gnucash.org] or KMyMoney [kmymoney2.sourceforge.net], which will be available in the ubuntu repositories.

Peter.