Rich Stanford wrote:
On Monday 14 February 2005 11:38 am, STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) wrote:Thank you, Rich. Your message was the first time I have seen any say explicitly that they have been able to get TurboTax to run in Wine.
Of course. And Turbo Tax for the Web (and all of the other companies) also use https. I guess the question is: a secure protocol _to what_?
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Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx
Back to the original quesiton, have people tried running Turbo Tax under wine? I was going to try it out just for grins, but have not gotten to it yet.
Robert Styma
To answer Robert, I just finished doing my taxes with Turbo Tax and I was running under wine (wine-20050111-1fc3winehq.i686.rpm) on Fedore 3.
Now, before I attempted it, I installed winetools (http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools). Follow the installation instructions for this little jewel completely, and it will insure that you have most of everything you need.
When that is completed, insert your CD and run the setup.exe. It runs quite well (I wouldn't consider it 100%, sometimes help windows appear and won't go away or get out of the way, but you soon learn to work around it).
I think that the Wine development guys ought to all have a toast, along with Frank Hendriksen and Joachim von Thadden.
Rich
Thanks also to those thread contributors reporting that Intuit had backed off of their copyright protection scheme.
