Is anyone running Quicken under Linux using crossover (a software package that allows the user to run Windows programs on a Linux system)? I've been doing it for a few weeks now (windows 10 system died) and it works great. So today, a patch for Quicken was released. The first patch since I started doing this. The patch fails to download when Quicken starts.
So, once Quicken is running, I click on the Help menu item, select Check for Updates. It finds the update and asks if I want to install it. I say yes and I get a popup with the message "Unable to check for updates, the server file failed to load". There is a detail section but it is blank.
I've worked on this for a whole day. I have 2 Manjaro/Arch computers - an older workstation A and a laptop B. A work will be without regular network connectivity and I will weekly connect via crossover with my laptop to offload data. A has static IP 192.168.0.1/24 set via netctl and B has IP 192.168.0.10/24 set via a NetworkManager profile in GUI. For A the mobo ethernet port did not seem to work and I installed a PCI NIC whihc has a link light. I tried connect A and B them with a crossover cable. The cable worked successfully at home with the same laptop and a RaspberryPi. I also cable-tested the crossover it is all correct. But at work neither computer can ping each other and the error is:
and so has the workstation A except the address is 192.168.0.1; netmask is the same. Link light is on for the network card on workstation A; ethtool output on A shows the link is detected. Yet there is no ping/connectivity and on B link is not detected (message from NetworkManager, ethtool and mii-tool outputs. What on earth could be wrong?
Updates according to comments:Netmask is same on both A and B. I checked interfaces with: lshw -class network -businfo - I have configured the correct interface on A - the one which belongs to the installed Realtek PCI card. Both addresses are static with the same netmask 255.255.255.0. Cards are 10/100 standard, which is confirmed by ethtool and mii-tool.
Next update: Almost solution: I subsequently found that on computer A NetworkManager was still running, despite me having disabled it previously. I read up on this and set both NetworkManager and NetworkManager-dispatcher services to masked - which should totally prevent NM from loading. Upon next reboot everything was working absolutely fine; there was immediate connection via crossover and I could get data as expected and this survived 5 reboots. I breathed a sigh of relief and put computer A on the production-testing site. However later during the day when I tried to connect to it with laptop B I got the same problem again. On A ethernet link light is on, but B shows no link/cable disconnected message. I will try to see if in some odd way NetworkManager has come to life again, but maybe this is hardware fault? Or any other network service that is interfering with netctl?
1) The major problem was that network manager was not completely disabled - this really messed up my configuration on A. Until I got this sorted there was no connectivity whatsoever. As soon as I disabled with mask (read about three levels of switching-off systemd) I got the connection. Both Arch and Manjaro pages about setting up static IP with netctl mention that you need to disable NetworkManager, but they don't quite say that some services may still bring NM up even though I disabled it at the 2nd level initially. Commands are:
2) Then I got the problem that sometimes this configuration would mysteriously stop working - i.e. plugging in the cable and setting laptop B NetworkManager profile to the static IP would give no results. Strangely the workstation A card link light is still on. Since at home with RaspberryPis this always works, I think this is some old hardware problems for the workstation. The best way to deal with this I found was to use mii-tool -w enp3s0 on the laptop. It means to watch your particular ethernet interface (enp3s0 in my case) for hardware level link. It changes instantly as you plug / disconnect your cable. ethtool seems more powerful but I did not find such convenient monitoring of the link for ethtool. So if mii-tool show the link, you look if your laptop interface is associated with the correct profile and then you can check with ping.
3) Hardware related problems - hence as an amateur I have many things to doubt, which makes the process more complicated. For that reason I will put some more bits here that I found particularly helpful:
One is lshw -class network -businfo - it gives you PCI address, device name and description. So on a machine with several interfaces you can make sure that your netctl or other CLI configuration is referring to the right card.
About IP v4 configuration. As you are setting up just 2 computers on the same subnet you do not need to set gateway. However NetworkManager GUI would not allow you to make a profile without a GW. You can just put the address of the other computer there or you can put 0.0.0.0 as GW.
I do not know how, but part of the problem was with the Realtek ethernet card I had. For some unknowable reason the computer was booting each time with slightly different MAC address and most of it was fff - like ff:ff:ff:7f:ff:ff. It was frustrating as hell as I saw in logs that IP address assigning fails. I could not solve it by trying to assign a different MAC address to it at boot. This problem was solved buying another cheap used ethernet card that seemed to come up with proper MAC address every time.
I found that sometimes my manjaro laptop could not see the network interface after cable was unplugged and then plugged in again. So the command mii-tool -w enp3s0 would complain that there was no such interface. However that was easy to solve by putting laptop to sleep and then waking it up again. mii-tool would report link and then ping would work as expected.
Hello guys,
you know that Rhino3D runs perfectly under Linux?
I used a derivative of Wine that works great.
You can also test it using the trial version of Codeweavers CrossOver and Rhino3D both.
They have created a system that uses macros dedicated to each software that solves all the necessary dependencies automatically.
Each software is installed in a specific container where environment has everything you need to run Rhino without going into conflict with other software.
So I abandoned Windows (at home, in the office is unthinkable) and I can finally enjoy my beloved Linux Mint ^____^ and the fabulous and super-loved Rhino3D!
Wow, cool!
I am not sure wonder why Holomark only picked up the integrated gpu and not the 480.
Also I see that technical display mode took an awful long time to complete, I have no idea why that happened.
The linux install runs from a SSD drive in a PCI-E slot (around 20 seconds), because I got annoyed at the slow boot speed of Windows 10 on the very slow HDD drive (over five minutes). I have the drive still in the machine so I suppose I could try booting into it soon for comparison.
I personally hope that the Rhino3d developers help the Wine project suggesting how to resolve the dependencies correctly. apparently the Linux versions are unlimited but in fact the most common office oriented systems are those based on Ubuntu and derivatives. A BIG Linux lacks is CAD related (as Rhino3D) and users could widen between Rhino enthusiasts and cascading down to the professionals. Perhaps neither Linux nor Windows are the future because of the huge crisis of desktop PC systems, maybe the future is Android or a super closed Windows app system but bigger is the audience more is spread a system and this can be also applied to the professional that over time has shown sensitivity towards free solutions such as Blender that was used into school by students. Students and enthusiasts are an important weapon for the deployment of software.
Have you been able to set up a 64bit environment too with GDI+ ? I tried that to install Rhino WIP, but I run continuously into GDI+ problems with even just the installer Would be great to test Rhino WIP under CrossOver too.
Need to install Crossover so I can run some windows programs, Quicken primarily. The Crossover website provides 3 versions of linux to choose from: deb rpm and bin. I guessed I would need bin so I downloaded it. Now, how do I install it? I am an Arch newbie.
Anyone using any of these? I just completed a trial of Crossover linux, for no other reason than I was getting Christmas decorations out and found some of FPS games. 2 of which I also have linux installers, but wanted to see how they did.
Doom 3, postal 2 and Red faction all installed and played as well as I remembered. Could not get Madden 07 (American football) to install. Also was pleasant surprised that steel panthers:world at war played full screen with crossover. I was never able to do that with play on linux. I also found simcity so I may dust it off too.
Haven't used wine for ages. Tried Medal of Honor - Allied Assault, but couldn't get it to work. Wouldn't install. Main reason, because on my son's laptop with Windows 10, it's unable to install, because they removed something from Windows that dealt with the copyright on the disks. So now, cannot be used, unless Windows XP or perhaps Windows 7. Pity as forgotten that I'd bought the game, and now can't play it at all.
Usually searched the winedb to see if it was supported and found that a lot of the apps I wanted to use just didn't work. Have used playonlinux and winetricks, which were quite good. Didn't bother much with Crossover.
I have the VARA FM and VARA HF running on crossover on an Intel macbook pro. However, despite many attempts, I've never been able to connect successfully. Everything is seemingly working properly (VARA sends proper audio to radio, audio is received properly, etc.) but for some reason the handshake never succeed. I tried changing crossover config between Windows 10 and XP with same results.
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