[TriLUG] ! --> Quickbooks replacement

[Scott G. Hall]

On 12/07/2004 02:50 PM Steve Litt wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 December 2004 01:21 pm, Scott G. Hall wrote:
>>> You can use CodeWeaver's CrossOver Office to run Quickbooks and QB-Pro.
>>> I have CrossOver 3.0.1 running on both a 2.4 Debian kernel (Xandros 2.5
>>> Business which includes CrossOver) and on Mandrake 10.0, a 2.6 kernel,
>>> and running QB-Pro 2003 just fine.  I'll be upgrading Mandrake to 10.1,
>>> CrossOver to 4.0 and Quickbooks Pro to 2005, and I can post here my
>>> experience with compatibility (currently untested by CodeWeavers).
> 
> My Crossover Office was completely unstable. How did you make yours stable 
> enough to run apps?
> 
> SteveT
> 

Xandros Desktop Business 2.5 shipped with CrossOver 3.0.1 as one of the
built-in packages.  I did have significant trouble installing MS Office XP
(don't ask -- my wife requires it over Star Office).  I had to follow a
bunch of threads from Microsoft about known installation bugs (on a native
MS-Win system) and upgrade patches and manually edit registry settings.
Once I got MS-Ofc XP installed though, installing and running the Quicken
products worked like a champ.

I posted on the Xandros forums, under "Re: MS Ofc XP on CrossOver" posted
on 'Wed Oct 27, 2004 11:58 pm' a long explanation of what I did to get it
to work.  I also forwarded it to Codeweavers, and they promised me that
they would address the problem (at least partially) in X-Ofc 4.0.

When I ordered and installed another copy of X-Ofc-3.0.1 from CodeWeavers
for my Mandrake 10.0 system, I went through the same steps to get MS-Ofc
to install -- even though I wasn't going to be using it.  I also peeked
at some of the installation settings the Xandros system used and tweaked
to match.  From there QuickBooks Pro 2003 and TaxCut 2003 installed and
ran just fine.

{ I'll send a copy of the detailed posting to you personally offline.
   Anyone else interested in a copy, just email me. }

-- 
Scott G. Hall
Raleigh, NC, USA
ScottGHall at BellSouth.Net