MSMoney for Linux - 15June2025

[N G]

msmoneysetup_Linux_64bit_FullInstall_15June2025.zip

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B3_lYbVqpB_yQ73NF3a0_PuNPuXqd0_G/view?usp=drive_link

Two tweaks/fixes:

1. The syntax for downloading the money installer files was goofed, now fixed. The bash implementation for Mac isn't the same as Linux, so when I try to match the code as much as possible on both platforms sometimes unexpected glitches result. 

2. msmoneysetup removes xml/url files to stop Money from phoning home to g.msn.com. Install.sh wasn't grabbing all the files for Canada/regional.

Nathan

[Gerardus Doedee]

Testing Linux_64bit_FullInstall_15June2025.zip

OS: Xubuntu 22.04

Windowing Sytem. XFCE

Previous install: Linux_64bit_FullInstall_19Apr2025.zip

MS Money Version: Dlx

Removed both msmoneysetup and .msmoneyprefix

Extracted new msmoneysetup and prepped

Installs as expected

MSMoney operates as expected

Had to make change below in msmoneysetup/winetricks/winetricks.sh

export WINEPREFIX=~/msmoneyprefix

Should read

export WINEPREFIX=~/.msmoneyprefix

(Added the . to point to the now hidden msmoneyprefix)

Cheers,

Gerardus

[N G]

Hi Gerardus,

Thanks for this, I'll make the change and reupload.

Nathan

[N G]

msmoneysetup_Linux_64bit_FullInstall_15June2025.zip
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EgY61P28T3z6YUJVC-jtZF7vn_MQ-QbT/view?usp=drive_link

[Gerardus Doedee]

FYI,

I took a Fedora 41 VM, installed Linux_64bit_FullInstall_15June2025 and tested. Money working as expected.

I then did a version upgrade where the VM was upgraded from Fedora 41 to Fedora 42.

Tested Money after the Fedora version upgrade. Everything working as expected.

Gerardus

[N G]

Gerardus,

Wow, thanks for testing and confirming that. It has been my experience that when wine is upgraded the prefix is also upgraded and MSMoney has continued to work.

Nathan

[-Kevin N]

Hi Nathan,

I upgraded to Mint Cinnamon 22.1 today.  

I'm happy the report that I ran Install.sh and MS Money is working fine. I haven't done extensive testing but winecfg also works as expected and I was able to reduce the screen resolution to 98 - a better fit for my laptop.

-Kevin N.

[N G]

Hi Kevin,

That’s great! I’ve been working on the Mac version for a while now, it’s just that much more complicated, where running wine on Linux is so easy. I’m glad it was seamless! That’s exactly what I had been shooting for!

Hope everything is going good for you and your fam in your part of the world.

Thanks for the update!

Nathan

[Dharmendra]

Sorry guys I am completely new to this Linux and its such a pleasure to know I can get MS Money running on Linux machine. I downloaded 

"msmoneysetup_Linux_64bit_FullInstall_15June2025" package. I am running Ubuntu 22.04. Extracted msmoneysetup folder and placed it in the home directory. So now my home directory lists desktop, documents, downloads all of those default folders along with msmoneysetup. 

When I try to run 

cd ~/msmoneysetup && ./Install.sh

I get permission denied. 

Am I keeping the extracted folder where it should be, what I am doing wrong? Appreciate your help guys. 

[N G]

Hi Dharmendra,

Can you cd into msmoneysetup and run a ls -al ?

$ cd ~/msmoneysetup

$ ls -al

Mine looks like:

$ ls -al
total 72
drwxrwxr-x 13 giardn giardn  4096 Jul 15 15:59 .
drwxr-xr-x 30 giardn giardn  4096 Aug 18 10:33 ..
drwxrwxr-x  2 giardn giardn  4096 Jul 15 15:03 desktop
drwxrwxr-x  2 giardn giardn  4096 Apr 19 08:53 extras
drwxrwxr-x  2 giardn giardn  4096 Apr 17 15:49 Guides
-rwxrwxr-x  1 giardn giardn 18576 Jul 15 15:59 Install.sh
drwxrwxr-x  2 giardn giardn  4096 Jul 12 15:43 logs
drwxrwxr-x  8 giardn giardn  4096 Jul 14 16:56 mnybackups
drwxrwxr-x  2 giardn giardn  4096 Jul 12 21:25 moneyinstaller
drwxrwxr-x  2 giardn giardn  4096 Jul 11 18:51 msmoneyquotes
drwxrwxr-x  5 giardn giardn  4096 Jun  9 17:58 ofxpy_pocketsense-python3-linux
drwxrwxr-x  3 giardn giardn  4096 Jul 12 21:31 registry
drwxrwxr-x  2 giardn giardn  4096 Jun 16 20:41 .uninstall
drwxrwxr-x  3 giardn giardn  4096 Jul 11 20:25 winetricks

You should have execute permissions on Install.sh (-rwxrwxr-x) but if not:

$ chmod u+x

You might have to sudo that if you're not the owner for some reason:

$ sudo chmod u+x

If by some reason you're not the owner (notice on mine it says giardn giardn) you might need to:

$ sudo chown yourusername ./Install.sh

It could be that copying the file msmoneysetup_Linux_64bit_FullInstall_15June2025.zip to your home folder first and then extracting it might be what you need.  

Let us know what you find.

Nathan

[Dharmendra]

Nathan,

This sentence, " It could be that copying the file msmoneysetup_Linux_64bit_FullInstall_15June2025.zip to your home folder first and then extracting it might be what you need.  "

caught my attention. My mistake was I manually transferred the extracted folder from Windows laptop to Linux.

So now, I went to Linix laptop, deleted the folder, and did the fresh download, extracted and followed the instruction from the guide, installation ran well without any problem, I am up and running, yay. 

Thank you very much, you are awesome! 

[N G]

Well done!

Glad you got it sorted out.

Nathan