On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 01:22 -0600, Emegra wrote: > Thanks again Martin > > I've tried various command line instructions to get Quickbooks to load > from terminal without success could you please tell me what format the > command should be to get Quickbooks to open from the terminal, the > path is wine/c/Intuit/Program Files/qbw32.exe. > Are you sure that path is correct? I would expect it to be one of: .wine/drive_c/Intuit/Program Files/qbw32.exe .wine/dosdevices/c:/Intuit/Program Files/qbw32.exe I'll assume you meant the first of these. First, from the console, try running the commands: cd $HOME/.wine/drive_c/Intuit/Program Files/ wine qbw32.exe wineboot --force wine qbw32.exe wineboot --force If this sequence can be run successfully, i.e. quickbooks run OK the second time, use a text editor, such as gedit, to put the stuff between rows of dashes into a file: lets call it quickbooks: ------------------- #!/bin/bash cd $HOME/.wine/drive_c/Intuit/Program Files/ wine qbw32.exe wineboot --force -------------------- Now make the file executable with the command: chmod uga+x quickbooks This small executable piece of text is called a script. You should now be able to run it and have quickbooks start, run and clean up after itself with the command: ./quickbooks Ideally, you'd put the quickbooks script in the /usr/local/bin directory and make sure that appears in the search path (use the "echo $PATH" command to check that) because that avoids cluttering your home directory and makes the script available no matter which directory you're in. I leave that as an exercise for you as they say. KNowing how to install scripts centrally is a basic, and very useful, Linux skill to have, so find an online tutorial or get a suitable book and find out how to do it. I hear that, much as I dislike its title, "Linux for Dummies" is a pretty good place to start, though if you consider yourself a Windows power user "Linux in a Nutshell" will tell you more and in a more concise form as well as being a good reference book. Martin
