[lug] Wine, Quicken, etc. on Linux (partly OT)

[Dhruva B. Reddy]

I'm afraid that Moneydance is no longer free (as in beer--never was as
in speech).  You can download a free trial version, but if it is like
MyBooks, it is timebombed.  If you find it an improvement over GnuCash,
it's $40.

Go to http://www.appgen.com

Dhruva

On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 02:47:01PM -0700, quoth Bob Collins:
> Moneydance 3.0 came with my SuSE 7.3.  I exported my Quicken accounts
> and Imported them into Moneydance.  I didn't have any problems and even
> though it is a double entry system, it was transparent to me.  
> 
> Since it is January it is an excellent time to give it a try.  I think
> it might be easier than trying to figure out and set up an emulation for
> Quicken.
> 
> -- 
>    Regards, Bob Collins
> Yesterday I was a dog.  Today I'm a dog.  Tomorrow I'll probably still
> be a dog. Sigh!  There's so little hope for advancement.
> 		-- Snoopy
> Elyse Grasso wrote:
> > 
> > My laptop is a Linux-only box, with no Windows installation or partitions.
> > I use Quicken (1998, I think), on a Windows machine at home, for financial
> > stuff. (The laptop and Win2k box can communicate using samba and vnc).
> > 
> > I may be contracting in Minneapolis for 3  months or more, beginning at
> > fairly short notice, and I would like to be able to keep my financial records
> > updated and have them available. I don't think I have the time or energy to
> > learn a new financial tool right now.
> > 
> > Can someone provide or point me to fairly detailed instructions on how to get
> > Quicken installed and running on my laptop using WINE (assuming that is
> > possible)?
> > 
> > Now the OT part: when I first used Quicken, years ago, I used their year-end
> > mechanism to split the data, so that files would not be too big to back up
> > easily on 5-inch floppies. Now that I use ZIP disks for backups instead of
> > floppies I would like to pull the data back together. Has anyone done this?
> > 
> > I realize that whatever mechanism I use will require a fair amount of manual
> > tweaking, and I will probably learn far more than I ever wanted to know about
> > exporting and importing data in Quicken. I think that to avoid problems with
> > transfers and duplicated records the safest way to deal with things will be
> > to do date-limited exports from all of the databases (including my current
> > one) and import them into a fresh database in sequence. Then compare with the
> > old databases to make sure the ending balances look right for each account,
> > and adjust as needed.
> > 
> > Since I will have the export files available in any case, I may do a parallel
> > import of the pre-95 (or whenever) data into GNUcash to see what it looks
> > like. (Pulling things back nearly on topic with a mighty heave.)
> > 
> > Are there any other Linux finance packages that I should investigate while
> > I'm at it?  Anything that can match Quicken's functionality of 6 or 8 years
> > ago would be sufficient: I use TurboTax, but I don't do automated imports of
> > info from Quicken because my categories don't map well, and I don't use it
> > for detailed tracking of investments.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Elyse