TurboTax - Linux?

[Rich Stanford]

On Monday 14 February 2005 11:38 am, STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) wrote:
> > 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_?
> >
> >
> > --
> > Matthew Miller            mattdm at mattdm.org
>
> 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