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[windspinner]

Greetings,

Just found you folks so this is my first post. I'd like to share my experience with linux. Just installed Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit. Added the wine ppa and installed wine 1.4 with synaptic. Downloaded and installed latest E-sword 10 with no problems. Opened it and went to download manager, clicked all I wanted, clicked apply and they all installed just fine, very quickly.

Re-downloaded all my premium modules for ver. 10, clicked on them and they all installed perfectly. Got so excited I bought 2 more. I didn't need to use any special installation tools or fiddle with my wine configuration. (It is default - as installed) Downloaded a few modules from other sites and they all worked fine.

For those having trouble I'd like to suggest you try the latest version of wine. The one from winehq. Haven't had too much time to experiment but searches are as quick or quicker than they were with Windows. The only issue I have is that it takes some time for the program to load initially. Once loaded all is well. Installed it on my Asus netbook running Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit with same results, although the initial program loading is painfully slow.

Problems? 1. Is there anything I can install with winetricks that might speed up initial loading? 2. With all the dictionaries, maps, resources available, how can I remember that the main objective is to get my sermons done?

Blessings.

John

[jonathon]

Added the wine ppa and installed wine 1.4 with synaptic.
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For those having trouble I'd like to suggest you try the latest version of wine.

I just installed WINE 1.6 on my system.
(I also installed the wrong half of xcfe 4.10, so I have to reinstall my entire system.)

jonathon

[Yoshaben]

Ok I have a problem with my purchased NET Bible Premium after a version 10 upgrade. I am on Fedora 16 wine 1.5.2 eSword 10.1.0. Everything works but my NET Bible. I got the latest version from bible.org, installed and the result is the tabs show but no text within them. What might I check?

[journey]

Ok I have a problem with my purchased NET Bible Premium after a version 10 upgrade. I am on Fedora 16 wine 1.5.2 eSword 10.1.0. Everything works but my NET Bible. I got the latest version from bible.org, installed and the result is the tabs show but no text within them. What might I check?

First, I hope that my memory is correct. If I remember correctly Net Bible Premium was never updated from e-Sword version 8 to e-Sword version 9. I'm almost sure that I used a converter program available in the tools and utilities section here to convert my Net Bible to e-Sword version 9 (9 is compatible with 10). e-Sword version 8 modules will not work with e-Sword version 9 or 10.

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[BaptizedBeliever]

I've got the updated NET version direct from Bible.org. Josh worked on correcting some of the problems with it moving to v10, if I'm not mistaken.

[Yoshaben]

I've got the updated NET version direct from Bible.org. Josh worked on correcting some of the problems with it moving to v10, if I'm not mistaken.

I also got the updated version from bible.org. Still have the problem. What I get is the chapter and verse but no text.????

[windspinner]

" I also got the updated version from bible.org. Still have the problem. What I get is the chapter and verse but no text.????"

I had same problem using older e-sword 8 and wine 1.1. After changing some .dll files from built-in to native I finally got it to load but all I had was chapter & verse, no text. Did some looking around in e-sword and found an option to "not use a backround". Once I clicked that the text magically appeared.

Don't know that this is solution to your problem but it might give you a direction to investigate.

[rkleivel]

Thanks for valuable info everyone!
I've just installed E-sword 10.1.0 on Ubuntu 12.04 and imported my notes etc and it works like charm except for one thing: I have used the yellow marker a lot in the previous installation (ubuntu 10.10 and an earlier e-sword). But now the yellow marker does not show in e-sword. Did even reinstall from scratch and marked some text, but still no success. Any idea? Underlining works though...
Thanks again

[geo316]

All,

 

I know this is a one year old thread but I've been trying to get an answer to a problem with e-Sword running under wine/ubuntu for more than a year!

 

It's a not a showstopping problem, but nonetheless.

 

Basically when upgrading to e-sword 10 I followed the "silverlight" instructions on several forums and reinstalled using the exe, not the famous install script from one of the Ubuntu forums - everything worked except none of the verses highlight or sync to the commentaries. Can anyone here shed light on this? Is there a specific .dll for wine that is responsible for this?

 

I've asked on several forums more than a year ago and have yet to get a reply.

 

Again, not a showstopping issue but still high on the annoyance list ;-) Any help would be appreciated.

 

George