Wine: MS Money 2004 + IE6

[Nikhil Fernandes]

On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 08:39 -0400, Ylan Segal wrote:
> Yesterday I tried installing MS Money 2004 Deluxe on Dapper (fresh new
> install). I encountered some problems.
> 
> After I installed wine and read the docs, I ran the Money 2004 setup.exe
> in the cdrom (through wine) and the installer starts. Soon after it
> stops with a message saying that Internet Explorer could not be
> installed and to install it manually from the folder in the cdrom. So I
> try to do that (wine ie6setup). No dice. It fails with a message saying
> that IE could not be installed. So, I figure that I would try the latest
> version of wine and use the instruction on their website to install for
> Ubuntu (simple steps) and upgrade to wine 0.9.14. Tried all the steps
> above, but still same results.
> 
> So, I figure that before I can install Money 2004 I need to Install IE6.
> I tried to do that by following instructions on the wine website where
> several options available:
> - winetools: Fails to create basic system
> - manual install: ie6 setup downloads the files from Microsoft, but
> cannot install them
> - ie4linux: installs everything and runs ie, however the gui is not all
> there, plus it installs in a non-standard directory and the MS Money
> 2004 setup doesn't find the explorer, so it doesn't work for me.


This is just a random shot, but if you look at the script by ies4linux
created in your ~/bin folder, it goes like this

#!/bin/bash
cd
WINEPREFIX="/home/user/.ies4linux/ie6" wine
"/home/user/.ies4linux/ie6/drive_c/Program Files/Internet
Explorer/IEXPLORE.EXE" "$@"

So if you created a similar script that has the path to the setup
program for Money 2004, it might work. My guess is that the script is
like this:

#!/bin/bash
cd
WINEPREFIX="/home/user/.ies4linux/ie6" wine "/path/to/setupprogram.exe"
"$@"

Note that the last two lines are actually one line.

Just my two cents...but I think it's worth a shot.

Nik