tasbooks Sage accounting software

triscleeire · Post by **triscleeire** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 6:31 am

I have tried installing tasbooks 2 from CD and the installer ran fine but no icon or star file appeared after finishing install.
Does anyone have any idea how to get tasbooks running with crossover?
Thanks for your help.

P.S. the software is working fine with parallels. Since I am on a trial version of parallels (and crossover for that matter) I need to decide which on use in future.
I would prefer Wine obviously but if I cannot get this application running on my mac I have no choice.

Post by **dimesio** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 6:57 am

triscleeire wrote:Does anyone have any idea how to get tasbooks running with crossover?

Crossover has its own support forum. Ask there. This forum is for plain Wine.

triscleeire · Post by **triscleeire** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 2:50 am

Hi dimesio,
sorry, I am confused.
I was guided to WineHQ in order to be able to run Windows software on my Mac. Should I have downloaded another software rather then crossover?

I am an end user not a developer, hence I know little to nothing about how any of these work.
Thanks

Post by **dimesio** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 7:15 am

triscleeire wrote:Hi dimesio,
sorry, I am confused.
I was guided to WineHQ in order to be able to run Windows software on my Mac. Should I have downloaded another software rather then crossover?

I am an end user not a developer, hence I know little to nothing about how any of these work.
Thanks

Crossover is a commercial product based on Wine. They provide their own support to their customers. If you are using Crossover, you need to get help from http://www.codeweavers.com/support/.

Other third party Wine products (Wineskin, Winebottler, etc.) also provide their own support. This forum is for users of plain Wine only. For Mac users, that means building Wine yourself.
http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX/Building
http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX/FAQs

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 9:03 am

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:50 AM, triscleeire <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi dimesio,
sorry, I am confused.
I was guided to WineHQ in order to be able to run Windows software on my Mac. Should I
have downloaded another software rather then crossover?

Both MacPorts and Fink exist to install Wine on your Mac as well as
CrossoverMac.

There has also been a lengthy discussion of Sage APPAC software here as well.

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 9:05 am

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 4:31 AM, triscleeire <[email protected]> wrote:

I have tried installing tasbooks 2 from CD and the installer ran fine but no icon or star file
appeared after finishing install.
Does anyone have any idea how to get tasbooks running with crossover?
Thanks for your help.

P.S. the software is working fine with parallels. Since I am on a trial version of parallels
(and crossover for that matter) I need to decide which on use in future.

Since Parallels uses a full on copy of Windows, most programs will
work with it. However you are saddled with paying for both Parallels
AND Windows.

I would prefer Wine obviously but if I cannot get this application running on my mac I have
no choice.

Can you send me a Private Message with the full name of the program.
I'll contact the developement team at Sage and see if I can get a
trial version of the program so that I can work on getting it to work
with Wine.

James McKenzie