Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[bones01]

Hi all,

I'm trying to find an effective and usable Bible program. Currently, I'm running choicepup 4.12 which works well. However, I can't get into Bibledesktop with the sfs, and now the link is dead - http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=274808.

I'd also like to try bibletime, but can't find a .pet or .sfs file for these. Is there one available yet?

Still trying to configure wine and e-Sword, but that's not going well.

Have downloaded xiphos (gnomesword) as a tar.gz, but don't know what to do with it.

How can one person have so many questions????

If anyone can help, or point me in the right direction, that would be very much appreciated. e-Sword is pretty much the only thing keeping me on windows on my laptop.

Thanks

Bones01

[disciple]

[disciple]

Wait... I didn't realise there was a new version of e-sword out. What I said should work for 7.x and 8.x
But I think I also needed to use the Windows msls31.dll

Looking at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=404042 it seems to be more complicated for 9.x

Personally I prefer 7.x. It looks like there are some improvements in esword 9 but I think the 7.x way of navigating the bible is best.

[disciple]

FYI information I just compiled xsword, which is tiny, but quite basic http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=303610#303610

[Jim1911]

If you still want to try Bibletime look at my posts on this thread http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=34664&start=75 which suggests how to install it. It is easily installed on the pup version that you are using.

A Xiphos installation requires a Gnome desktop and is more difficult to install.

Another possibility is Alkitab see http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/index.html which, like BibleDesktop is java based and simple to install.

However, if you don't want to try installing them yourself, Churchpup and Living Water are both to be updated soon, and I believe that both will have Bibletime.

Personally, I love E-sword in Windows, but although I prefer Linux, I don't like running Wine under Linux. One big advantage is that E-sword has some modern translations available for a fee, that are not available with open source software. Of course for those translations, you can always use Internet bible links where you can usually find your favorites.

[Bruce B]

Building your own searchable database.

If you have the flat text files with meaningful file
names and chapter and verse, a script could be
written to quickly locate about anything you want.

I couldn't locate a common Linux / Unix program
called look. The reason why is look is too broad a
search criteria.

So . . .

. . . I made my own word list based on some files I
downloaded.

Then wrote my script. Now finding words and their
precise spelling is virtually instantaneous.

I think in this case I'd find Bible in text then make my
own search scripts.

[disciple]

[Jim1911]

It's much easier to just boot into XP Pro on my dual boot system than it is to bother with Wine.

[disciple]

It might be easier, but I imagine you'd save time in the long run if you spent quarter of an hour setting it up in Wine, after which it would just work

BTW one thing we didn't discuss is using e-sword from your Windows installation. A lot of people talk about copying the modules across from their windows installation. My windows is Win98, and if I run esword in Wine with Win98 compatibility, I can just replace the esword program folder with a link to the one in Windows. I think in later Windows the esword program folder is separate from the data folder (i.e. under "Documents and Settings"), and I'm guessing you could do a similar thing, but I haven't tried it.

[bones01]

[disciple]

That Ubuntu page had a script to set up esword, and IIRC someone posted there that it works in Puppy too. So when I said 9.x looks like it is more complicated to set up, I didn't mean that it isn't still quite straightforward, I just meant that there was more to be done.

[bones01]

Hi Disciple,

Today I have had some success. Finally, I have e-sword up and running. The only thing different is using an older e-sword I still had on my desktop, and updating that to 8.x

I also checked on both richedit dll's that you mentioned. Perhaps that made the difference as well.

Anyway, while I'll still be interested to try Bibletime & bibledesktop, now that e-sword is running, I feel free at last.

Thanks for your help and referrals.

Bones

PS. I do have Living Water puplet with BibleDesktop, but when I added the Strong's codes, they went haywire. Numbers were there, but they didn't match Strongs. Very confusing.

[bones01]

Last night (my time in Aus) I had e-Sword up and running. I was very excited. I even added some modules and they worked. Fantastic.

Today, I have nothing.

When i went to 'winecfg', e-Sword wasn't even listed! But it's still on the system.

What could possibly have changed between shutting down overnight and opening up this morning? I did add another module, but if that's the problem, I have no idea how to delete it if I can't get into e-Sword to do so.

oh well, back to a book with pages i suppose.

Bones

[disciple]

Weird - I've never heard of anything like that happening. I guess the wine registry file must have become corrupted or deleted or something. If it is just the dll overrides that are missing it shouldn't be so bad to fix though.

[bones01]