TurboTax 2006 does work, but not quite 100% and it was a bit of a pain. I run Mandriva Linux 2007 on a Dell Inspiron 5100. I could not get TurboTax 2006 to run on 5.0.3. The installer would just quit. That left me the need o give the beta a try.

In order to get TurboTax 2006 to install, I have to copy the contense of the CD to my hard drive and install from there. For whatever reason, when the CD is mounted, Linux or Mandriva doesn't show the full length of the filename which causes the installer to have a fit. By installing it from the hard drive, I can change the filenames to what TurboTax requires as it prompts for it. However, before installing TurboTax, be certain to install Internet Explorer 6 and all the core fonts.

The interface mostly works, I have not tested everything but the one thing that does not work is the "Topic List" dialog. Clicking on a topic will not take you there.

I would like to see Intuit and codeweavers work together on producing TurboTax in the future so that I don't have to learn about how Linux and Crossover Office works. What I don't understand is why the filenames are truncated when the CD is read. Understanding that would have saved me many of hours of frustration.

Bottom line, all this time spent working to get TurboTax 2006 to run on Linux is far better than spending a single moment of using Windows.

I copied Turbotax from the cd to my Home folder. What specifically did you do to file names to get Crossover to install Turbotax. I've tried "setup.exe" but to no avail.

Thanks

J Reed

About 50 files on the CD have their names truncated for whatever reason and TurboTax complains about not being able to find the full-named version of the files. I've written a script that will fix all the bad file names. Simply run this from the root directory of the CD copy you made on your hard drive. Make sure you have write permissions to everything in that and all subfolders (make sure you're the owner and run 'chmod -R 775 .' in the root directory of the CD copy).

It should install just fine after that if you have IE 6 and all core fonts pre-installed in the bottle.

This script is written for the Turbo Tax 2006 Deluxe (Deduction Maximizer) version only. It may or may not work completely or partially for the Basic and Premier versions.

Here's the script:

!/bin/bash

A simple bash script to rename incorrectly-named files after copying from CD.

If these files are not renamed, the installer will balk and ask for "disk1"

echo "TurboTax 2006 filename fixer"
echo "Written by Brion Swanson"
echo "This software is free without restriction and without warranty"
echo

eval touch testfile 2>&1
VAL=$?
if [[ $VAL = 1 ]]; then
echo "
This script requires the current directory structure and all subdirectories to be writable by the current user, please use 'chmod -R 775 .' to enable writing on this and all subdirectories"
exit 1
fi

rm -f testfile 2>&1

CWD=pwd

cd 32bit/local/dlg/
mv efexceedallowednumberoffil.htm efexceedallowednumberoffilings.htm
mv passwordentersecurityquest.htm passwordentersecurityquestion.htm
mv passwordincorrectsecurityq.htm passwordincorrectsecurityquestionanswer.htm
mv preinterviewregistrationbi.htm preinterviewregistrationbiz.htm
mv preinterviewtitlebackgroun.gif preinterviewtitlebackground.gif
mv udiqbstepbystepbalanceshee.htm udiqbstepbystepbalancesheet.htm
mv udiqbstepbystepimportsumma.htm udiqbstepbystepimportsummary.htm
mv userlicenseagreementconten.htm userlicenseagreementcontent.htm

cd ../easystep/
mv ep_successfulelectronicfil.xml ep_successfulelectronicfiling.xml
mv tp_1040topiclist_stateefin.xml tp_1040topiclist_stateefinterview.xml
mv tp_1040topiclist_stateefre.xml tp_1040topiclist_stateefreview.xml
mv tp_1040topiclist_state_efp.xml tp_1040topiclist_state_efpostackinterview.xml
mv proreview_err_account_disa.xml proreview_err_account_disabled.xml
mv proreview_err_already_refu.xml proreview_err_already_refunded.xml
mv proreview_err_invalid_pass.xml proreview_err_invalid_password.xml
mv proreview_err_require_user.xml proreview_err_require_user_response.xml
mv proreview_err_return_not_f.xml proreview_err_return_not_found.xml
mv proreview_err_return_recei.xml proreview_err_return_received.xml
mv proreview_err_return_speci.xml proreview_err_return_special.xml
mv proreview_err_return_under.xml proreview_err_return_under_review.xml
mv proreview_err_unable_to_re.xml proreview_err_unable_to_retrieve.xml
mv proreview_get_review_repor.xml proreview_get_review_report.xml
mv proreview_got_report_nexts.xml proreview_got_report_nextsteps.xml
mv proreview_ready_to_transmi.xml proreview_ready_to_transmit.xml
mv proreview_transmit_success.xml proreview_transmit_successful.xml
mv stepfile_ef_potentially_fi.xml stepfile_ef_potentially_filed_quit.xml
mv stepfile_ef_state_notinsta.xml stepfile_ef_state_notinstalled.xml
mv stepfile_efamtduestate_cre.xml stepfile_efamtduestate_credit.xml
mv stepfile_efamtduestate_dir.xml stepfile_efamtduestate_directdebit.xml
mv stepfile_efstateonlysuppor.xml stepfile_efstateonlysupported.xml
mv stepstate_finish_2states_b.xml stepstate_finish_2states_biz.xml
mv stepstate_upsell_nointerne.xml stepstate_upsell_nointernet.xml
mv udi_qb_realestate_reconcil.xml udi_qb_realestate_reconcile.xml
mv upgrade_upgradeinfo_homebi.xml upgrade_upgradeinfo_homebiz.xml
mv upgrade_upgradeinfo_premie.xml upgrade_upgradeinfo_premier.xml

cd ../img/
mv easystepef_transmitwarning.gif easystepef_transmitwarning_81.gif
mv flash_get_flashplayer_88_3.gif flash_get_flashplayer_88_31.gif

cd ../ipps/
mv skeletonstatepatchdownload.htm skeletonstatepatchdownloading.htm

VAL=$?
cd $CWD

if [[ $VAL = 0 ]]; then
echo "Fixed. Please run Wine or CrossOver to install TurboTax 2006."
else
echo "There were errors. Check permissions of all files and directories and try again."
fi

I found that there is some defect on the CD or whatnot that causes it to be mounted with incorrect permissions by default (700, uid 99) on many files, especially the *.exe files that the installation wants to find:

ls -alcrt /cdrom
total 5526
drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 4096 Oct 17 22:18 ..
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Oct 27 18:26 turbotax premier 2006
-rwx------ 1 99 99 48973 Oct 27 18:30 volumeicon.icns
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Oct 27 18:30 background
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Nov 1 18:06 uninstal
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Nov 1 18:06 scd
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Nov 1 18:06 quicken
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Nov 1 18:06 qkn2006
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 8192 Nov 1 18:06 media
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 16384 Nov 1 18:07 import
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 10240 Nov 1 18:07 ie
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Nov 1 18:07 id
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Nov 1 18:08 iclient
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Nov 1 18:08 forms
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Nov 1 18:09 fonts
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Nov 1 18:09 flash
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Nov 1 18:09 dlinst
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Nov 1 18:09 autoptch
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Nov 1 18:09 answrks
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Nov 1 18:09 acrobat
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Nov 1 18:09 32bit
-rwx------ 1 99 99 111386 Nov 2 12:58 license.txt
-rwx------ 1 99 99 42391 Nov 2 12:58 layout.bin
-rwx------ 1 99 99 14709 Nov 2 12:58 fdiofx.1ph
-rwx------ 1 99 99 48 Nov 2 12:58 autorun.inf
-rwx------ 1 99 99 25214 Nov 2 12:58 ttax.ico
-rwx------ 1 99 99 455600 Nov 2 12:58 setup.exe
-rwx------ 1 99 99 144 Nov 2 12:58 autorun.ini
-rwx------ 1 99 99 164784 Nov 2 12:58 _setup.dll
-rwx------ 1 99 99 51019 Nov 2 12:58 tax.thp
-rwx------ 1 99 99 824 Nov 2 12:58 winscan.dat
-rwx------ 1 99 99 13464 Nov 2 12:58 tax.scd
-rwx------ 1 99 99 432717 Nov 2 12:58 setup.inx
-rwx------ 1 99 99 29467 Nov 2 12:58 fdiimb.1ph
-rwx------ 1 99 99 552214 Nov 2 12:59 issetup.dll
-rwx------ 1 99 99 106496 Nov 2 12:59 autorun.exe
-rwx------ 1 99 99 452 Nov 2 12:59 setup.ini
-rwx------ 1 99 99 47340 Nov 2 12:59 fditxf.1ph
-rwx------ 1 99 99 512 Nov 2 12:59 data2.cab
-rwx------ 1 99 99 258924 Nov 2 12:59 data1.hdr
-rwx------ 1 99 99 2708385 Nov 2 12:59 data1.cab
-rwx------ 1 99 99 36772 Nov 2 12:59 comfed.1ph
-rwx------ 1 99 99 20480 Nov 2 12:59 cdrun.exe
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 6144 Nov 2 13:01 .
-rw-r--r-- 1 99 99 453318 Nov 2 13:02 macscan.txt

The fix for me was to manually mount the CD and pass in my uid and gid so that I had rights to the files:

sudo mount -t iso9660 -o ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000 /dev/hdd /cdrom

This is on Ubuntu 6.10 and TurboTax Premier Investments 2006 from Costco

I still was unable to install from the CD though, as it ran into the same problem that the Turbotax filenames exceeded the 30 character maximum for a joliet iso9660 filesystem. I don't think that anyone at Intuit testing installation from a CD, only before they burned it to CD...

Actually, here's the fix on linux that I just found.

You need to disable RockRidge extensions to use only Joliet extensions:

sudo mount -t iso9660 -o ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,norock /dev/hdd /cdrom

Then you can install from the disk directly.

-Jason

I posted a step-by-step description of how I installed TurboTax 2006 on the Intuit forum
http://forums.turbotax.com/intuit/board/message?board.id=installupdate06&message.id=265&page=2