wine and quicken on stand alone linux box

[bs_texas]

I've been doing some searching and haven't found an answer to this, or if I did, I didn't quite understand it. I want to reformat the hard drive in my mom's computer and install Linux. But, for me to do this, she has to be able to run quicken reliably.

Since I can't actually 'install' quicken on the linux machine (or can I?) and I won't have a windows partition to get any files from on that machine, then how do I get the quicken files onto the linux machine to be used?

The idea I'm running through my head is to install her quicken on my windows 2000 machine, copy all the files and directories to a cd, then copy the files from the cd into the wine-c directory or the .wine directory (I still have research to do on that.) And, a problem I am foreseeing is how to tell the quicken program where all it's files are without the windows registry.

Am I going the right direction here? Any advice or links would be greatly appreciated for this.

[jaygee432]

You can make a "fake" windows partition by making a c directory with /windows and /windows/system under it, then make sure all the settings in your wine.conf file are congruent with this. Then theoretically you should be able to install quicken and run it there. You might also consider not bothering with quicken but use a linux alternative such as cbb (check book balancer). It can import/export qif files and is as easy to use once you get used to it, just much leaner and lacking in the bells and whistles of quicken.

[Beaudificus]

Depending on what your mother uses Quicken for, you could be better off with the Calc software under OpenOffice. (www.openoffice.org)

See if she'd be OK with that, then if she isn't consider the wine route.