Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Quicken 2008 for Ubuntu Linux?
I was configuring a Dell Ubuntu system just now and during the config process they now have a section for “Top Selling Software”. I was perplexed when I saw “Quicken Home and Business 2008″ as the only top selling software option to order with the Ubuntu Dell system. So I went over to Quicken.com and sure enough they don’t show any Linux supported versions. I also asked the “Live Chat” person and he said I cannot “buy the Quicken for your Linux”. Oh well..
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October 25th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
onesojourner said:
shoot. I thought google had found me the answer I was looking for, oh well quicken will support ubuntu eventually.
January 26th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Seth said:
Check out Yodlee MoneyCenter. It’s similar to Quicken except it’s web-based and free.
January 26th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Seth said:
Actually, http://www.mint.com seems better than Yodlee
February 8th, 2008 at 11:55 am
Stas said:
mint.com is based on Yodlee.
You can see that here:
http://corporate.yodlee.com/customers/consumers.html
July 5th, 2008 at 2:28 am
jay said:
Actually, Mint is NOTHING like quicken. It’s missing a TON of features.
July 16th, 2008 at 9:14 am
orgthingy said:
I use KMyMoney and it works in GNOME even though it’s KDE program! amazing, I recommend it to everyone :D
July 25th, 2008 at 3:45 am
GC said:
Quicken can happen on Linux. CodeWeavers Crossover Office (think WINE on steroids) is reputed to handle it quite tidily.
September 9th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
alex said:
You must really love Linux to give up Quicken for Yodlee :) or you must really know Linux (and probably Windows troubleshooting) to handle WINE nightmare
October 5th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Bob said:
Hello
I use Quicken 2005 on Ubuntu 8.04 Using Code Weavers Crossover Office. Most features work well, you can download a trial version from Code Weavers. I also run Office 2003, Visio, and Internet explorer. Crossover is easy to use. The programs install just like they would in windows
October 16th, 2008 at 3:47 am
Kelechi said:
Hello,
Was almost gonna throw a party, I’ve been holding up on migration (fully ) to ubuntu cause most of the software I use are not available on linux, on seeing this search result….. ah! Ok, I guess we keep posting when we see a linux version, anyone knows if Paloalto business plan software now on linux?
November 30th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Rusty said:
I think it is more of hating Windows than loving Linux. I’ve just given up on Windows. I’mm going to have to check out crossover but I think it cost $$$. I just tried to install Quicken on Wine. Didn’t really work. It’s there but it crashes when it tries to create a data file. I’m seeing a lot of that kind of thing. programs work but it can’t work with the file system. Wine tries to fake it otu but its just not working for Quicking, sure it wont work for Lightroom. KMyMoney may be the best choice though. It looks like Quick Books
December 15th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Daniel said:
Quicken in Ubuntu works!
December 16th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Jared said:
@Daniel you want to expand on that? how do you have it working?
December 17th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Michael said:
Moneydance is the best Linux bank manager out there (although it doesn’t work with compiz and it does cost money). However, it is has a Windows and Mac version.
Personally, I tend to avoid Wine as it seems to cause more problems than it solves. However, I have broken down and installed an old copy of Windows XP in a Virtual Box for those programs where this is no other choice (mostly work stuff).
February 9th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Bluie said:
Try GnuCash. Double entry as good as Quicken and it is free. It even has tax tables. Don’t know how well it works to download from your bank.
Trouble is neither Turbo Tax or Tax Cut work on Linux. Which is not MS fault but it still means you have to use Windows to do taxes. Although Tax Cut at least claims you can use Linux and Firefox to do the taxes on line.
Oh my goodness no M$ doesn’t have any monopolies on this side of the board just all the utilities and railroads. ;-}
February 25th, 2009 at 9:03 am
Robert said:
The example above of now Quicken and Turbo Tax versions is one of many reasons Linux will never succeed on the desktop until that changes. I say this as someone who loved OS/2 back in the mid nineties, but saw it disappeared because IBM never figured out the all important fact that you need to run all of your key applications. Without that, the OS is semi-useless.
As someone brand new to Linux, I have some big time complaints. I cannot believe Unbuntu 8.10 with old versions of FireFox and Open Office. Updating those versions is very complex and way beyond the means of most users. Who’s running the show with Linux?
March 2nd, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Rory said:
I just want to make a comment on the use of wines/Crossovers etc. To have a 100% windows compatibility running programs like quicken, quickbooks, Photoshop, Lightroom etc. Rather install the free Sun xVM Virtual Box software and create a virtual windows OS Machine. From this you can run your Apps, with zero compatibility problems.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:47 am
Pete said:
Having used the Sun xVM recently I must say its a nice option for those “work” applications. I must say Linux has come VERY far in the last few years. Thanks to all who have put in the hours working on the project.
April 13th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Michael said:
Hi Robert. I’m running the show with Linux. Luckily, you found my forum. Please make a list of your complaints here and I will see to it that they are fixed ASAP.
Unfortunately, it can sometimes be difficult for me to coordinate the thousands of volunteer and paid programmers around the world who work on our various distributions (such as Ubuntu), so you may experience a slight delay in our response. If you want to speed things up, please consider getting involved. It takes a little bit of work to get oriented, but we’d love to have you on our team.
In the meantime, I’ve just created a feature to help beginning users such as yourself: it’s called the MAN pages, and I’m very excited about it. It’s not super flashy yet, but my hope is that it will get you going in the right direction.
You might also try googling for a beginner’s guide to linux.
Best of Luck,
Michael McCarrin
April 21st, 2009 at 12:04 am
Irfan said:
Quicken 2007 works perfectly well using Linux Crossover. Someone said “Wine nightmare” earlier: haha. It’s just as easy to install Quicken using Crossover as it is on Windows, you don’t even have to reboot afterwards. Quicken 2008 is also said to work without problems: in the next release of Crossover, due out this year, 2009 will be supported (as well as CS3 and a few other programs.)
May 15th, 2009 at 8:40 am
Michael said:
I have had no luck getting Quicken 2009 to work yet using Wine or CrossOver though there are some claims out there people have using Ubuntu (I used the same methods).
But I made a nice discovery about Wine – if you’re running a dual-boot Windows/Ubuntu box like me, install the programs in Windows, then navigate to that program’s exe file, right click and choose “Open with ‘Wine Windows Program Loader” – many programs that can’t be “installed” in Wine, will just run in Wine this way – including TaxCut and a slew of others (but not Quicken 2009, yet). I don’t know why this is, but it works.
I also have gotten font smoothing installed in Wine, too, which is nice.
One most programs are installed in Windows, if you want you can copy over their Program Files folder to .wine/drive_c/Program Files, their dlls to .wine/drive_c/Windows/System 32 and fonts to .wine/drive_c/Windows/Fonts
Then you can use right click as mentioned above and run them in your Linux partition.
- Michael
May 28th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Brian said:
I’m a Ubuntu 9.04 newbie. How do I navigate to .wine? I can’t seem to find it. Is is a hidden folder?
May 31st, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Marcio said:
Brian, since three days has passed by after your post I believe you have found the answer, otherwise you can do:
- In the main menu chose ‘places >> home folder’;
- On the file browser window, locate a button which its icon is a sheet of paper and a pen on the tools bar and click on it to show the ‘location’ input field;
- For the location, type ‘~/.wine’ and hit enter. It should go into the “.wine” directory.
Yes, it is a hidden directory. Any file or directory which its name start with a dot is a hidden file/dir.
Hope this helps.
July 10th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
tmsbrdrs said:
Brian, another way to find .wine is to open up your home folder, click View and click Show Hidden Files.
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Bob said:
I’ve been trying to get Quicken 2007 up with Crossover in Ubuntu 9.04 for weeks now. The customer service at codeweavers has been helping out, but still no go.
I’ve followed the step on this page as per codeweavers recommendation, but it did not help:
http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=2634;tips=1
I can start Quicken, but every time it tries to set up a new QDF file or open an existing one the program just closes (without even saying goodbye).
I’m going to try opening the exe on my XP partition as suggested above. Maybe that’ll work for me. Otherwise, I guess I’ll learn how to install a xVM and go that way.
I love Linux and Ubuntu, and would love to be able to migrate over completely over to it. But I’ve been using Quicken for too many years to go over to a new program, unless it take my existing QDF and convert them with minimal setup.
August 5th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Jeff Latten said:
Bob, I agree with you completely. I have so many years of personal and business data in quicken and quickbooks. I have yet to find an Ubuntu program to equal either of these two programs, or even one that can correctly import data from them. I’ve tried GNUcash, KMyMoney (not sure about that title) and some others, but they’re junk in my estimation compared to the Intuit programs. Same issue with Outlook; I haven’t found an Ubuntu based email program that will correctly import any kind of export file from Outlook. I have hundreds of contacts and years of data in there and I’m not going to re-type everything.
I think this is one of the factors holding back the growth and dispersion of Linux/Ubuntu…the apps are not up to the quality of the OS, particularly in these two very vital areas – finance and email. I’d say that Quicken and Outlook might be the 20% of my programs that I do 80% of my work with. The old 80/20 rule never fails!
August 12th, 2009 at 4:50 am
Gary said:
Jeff Latten: If you are addicted to Outlook and spend around 80% of you time in there then why the hell would you want to leave your cosy windows setup.
Stay windows and forget about Linux or posting about Linux – you’re happy where you are and Linux folks would like you to stay there I think.
Here are the versions of Firefox3 and Openoffice3 in the current Ubuntu release (9.04)
http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/firefox
http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/openoffice.org
If you want to be a bit more bleading edge and run firefox 3.5 then it is there and just do:
sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5
and you are good to go.
September 21st, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Ted said:
For me it is wanting to do certain secure type functions such as online banking in an environment that is safer from malware. When you are up against things like Clampi which is potentially sitting on your windows box waiting to steal your banking credentials, it makes me think going through the pain of getting money management and banking off of the windows platform and onto something that is supposed to be a bit safer, is worth the effort. I do what I can in the windows environement to avoid being compromised but can never really feel that safe.
September 27th, 2009 at 10:01 am
Mike Olsen said:
I exported all my contacts to Google mail, from Outlook and into Evolution. Then I setup Evolution to connect to Google for my calendar. Then, with my corporate email on my XP PC, which uses Exchange, I setup IMAP, and Copied all of my mail from my Exchange Folder or Off line Folders, into my IMAP Folders, so it had the same folder setup as my Outlook. Then I setup Evolution with my IMAP for my corporate email. Then installed Google Calendar Sync on my Windows PC to Sync my Outlook Calendar with my Google Account. Then I setup Evolution to connect to my Google Calendar, which was a simple task. Now I had Evolution setup to my Corporate Email though IMAP, and it had the exact same Folder and Email that my Outlook had. And It had all of my Contacts from Outlook. And it had all of the years of my Outlook Appointments in my Calendar. I got Evolution to handle all of my Outlook needs. Then I switched my Smart Phone to work with Google’s new Push mail and it Sync’s my Calendar, Email & Contacts. Then I also setup my Corporate Email via IMAP in my Smart Phone. Now, my Smart Phone is just like it was when it was hooked up to my Exchange server and I was able to Switch over to Linux and use Evolution for a complete replacement for Outlook. I do however have the same issue with Quicken or Quickbooks. GNUCash sucks and nothing compares. And no recent Intuit products in Wine have reached Platinum Status and I have found bugs in all Intuit Products in Wine. So I still have a PC setup for my bookkeeping, but I do love the freedom of Free and Open Source Software and having a more secure O/S. I have NEVER had a security issue with any of my Linux boxes.
January 10th, 2010 at 7:21 pm
rich said:
Im about to try this out:
http://moneydance.com/linux
January 27th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
Comprador said:
Rich, so what did you think of Moneydance?
February 12th, 2010 at 12:39 pm
WL Collins said:
Re the import/export of Email and contact information . I would suggest you try Kmail as an intermediate step . It will import and export to many file types . I have used it to get my evolution contacts into a CSV file which I can use almost any where . Although I like Evolution, getting the contacts out is not supported natively, but with Kmail, I can pull them into Kmail and output into a variety of formats . The only caviat is to be aware of SCHEMA issues between the different programs . Hope this is of some value.
May 9th, 2010 at 5:26 pm
Winger said:
I have the same problem as others who have responded. Years of necessary brokerage and financial data tied up in Quicken that I can’t afford to lose. I don’t know if any of the financial packages available in Linux would be sufficient as there does not seem to be an adequate way to transfer my data into them.
I also have another problem. I require a good speech recognition program. I have read that Wine can be used to install Naturally Speaking, but I have had little success with Wine.
Other than this, I could make a complete transition to Linux.
Winger
December 18th, 2010 at 8:03 pm
JohnP said:
Quicken 2011 Premium installs under the current WINE on Ubuntu with just a few extra settings / steps. These days, it really isn’t very hard to get working.
Here’s how:
http://blog.jdpfu.com/2010/11/29/solved-quicken-2011-working-on-linux
I believe older versions will work with this config too.
April 28th, 2011 at 11:08 pm
redxine said:
According to the ubuntu website (http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/features/office-applications) Quicken is available in the Software Centre for the newly released Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. I’ve yet to download and install it, and I’ll be stuck with 10.04 for a while for my tablet drivers until I sit down and port them.
October 20th, 2011 at 6:59 am
Richard J. Lawrence said:
I have read all of the above, and there seems to be a lot of conflicting opinions. Has anyone succeeded in converting quicken backup files to files that can be read into a Linux based financial tool? I use only a very small number of the Quicken features just to keep track of expenditures from various credit cards –I like the history — when did I purchase that TV (is it beyond warentee etc.). So I could get by with an inferior program as long as it isn’t buggy and as long as I can get my Quicen history converted to it. I am leary of things like wine and crossover and that sort of thing. Alternatively, is there a cloud application that has a one time cost (not like Quickbook with its monthly fee) that will inport Quicken backup files? I find windows just too insecure and at least twice a year my laptop needs to go into a shop for malware eradication. I paid $162 yesterday and after working on it for 5 tech hours over a period of three days their remained one root kit virus that they couldn’t kill that causes some programs to become nonresponsive intermittantly. I don’t have time to do a reinstall of the OS and all my programs. I have dabbled with Ubuntu a little and like it, but my dependence on Quicken and Encore (a music program) are keeping me MSWindows bound. I envy young people who started out with Linux and have no need to convert anything.