Ubuntu and e-tax

[Paul Schulz]

Hi Geoff, (and others)

I've just had a go at installing e-tax 2009 (etax2009_1.msi) under
Ubuntu 9.10 and wine (wine-1.0.1-0ubuntu8), and unfortunately it
doesn't work..

For those that might be interested..
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Opening the msi goes through the installation process OK, but then
running etax gives a

  E-tax 2009 No data loaded window, with a pretty 'Australian
Government etax 2009' popup/splash window, but no (obvious) way to
progress.. other than closing the main window,
Doing this then produces the error..

"Exception EExternalException in module etax2009.exe at 6973F409.
External exception C0000025."

Running the 'eTax Help' pops up a window with:
"Access violation at address00000000 in module 'etaxHelp.exe'. Write
of address 00000000"
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I'm struggling to avoid making any 'propriety' vs 'FLOSS' commentary.

Anyway.. I'm having another go with Ubuntu 10.04 which uses wine1.2.
Watch this space.

Cheers,
Paul

On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Geoffrey <gcombes4 at bigpond.com> wrote:
> Thanks Dave (Wine) and Angus (VirtualBox) for the advice.
> I've been told about both but have yet to study them.
> It would be nice to be able to run a couple of other Windows programs
> that I have on Ubuntu.
> Meanwhile I'm hoping that the ATO live up to their promise and write
> e-tax for Linux sometime in the near future.
> Geoff
>
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