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#11 dogfish

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Posted 10 April 2019 - 10:11 AM

Update: I  tried this script (running Mint 19.1) and it failed in a few places because it is out of date. One of them is the e-sword file version which obviously has to be changed to1122. Other areas have to do with repository addresses and such which have also changed. The new info is available at winehq.orq, but I don't know enough about scripting to make all the changes and make everything gel. Perhaps if someone does know how to do this and rebuild a script that works it could be posted and tried.

 

For now I will stick with the dual-boot win/linux setup I have :)



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Posted 14 April 2019 - 01:16 PM

E-Sword is about the only Windows program I run that is an absolute daily essential.  That said I tend to not mess too much when I get it working correctly.  However last time I did a fresh install on an 18.04 machine I found that E-Sword 11.1 seemed to install and run with the latest Wine and no modifications.  The only thing that didn't work was scripture tool tips in the commentaries.  To me this was a huge loss so I tried the winetricks command and it was totally restored.  Is there anyone really knowledgeable  that would know if every one of those libraries would be necessary to restore the tool tips or if it was one particular library?  Doesn't really matter at this point but I am curious which library he uses to display those.



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Posted 15 April 2019 - 09:33 PM

Hey guys.  I am running Linux Mint 18 Sylvia.  The below script worked perfect for me.  In Mint, you can even add the Module Installer making adding modules to E-Sword a breeze.  I cant leave the script below, because the post will minimize some of the linked scrip making it error upon installing.  So I have left a link to the page where I found the script instead.  Also, if someone wanted to make a video tutorial, they can use Kazam in Linux with an external mic.  God Bless.

 

 

 

the link to the page I found the script on is https://ubuntuforums...d.php?t=2406061


Edited by davejonescue, 15 April 2019 - 09:36 PM.


#14 DJPeter84

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Posted 22 August 2019 - 06:21 AM

for an updated version of e-sword on Linux see http://www.biblesupp...linux-mint-191/

 



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Posted 02 November 2019 - 05:21 PM

I just installed the latest version 12.10 using Playonlinux without issue.   I was not able to get the built in profile to load for reasons unknown.  Just installed as an unlisted program, left it all as default settings (64bit), and it worked out of the box.   The fonts were a bit funky.   I went ahead and exited and then configured to add corefonts, tahoma, MSLS31, MSXML3, MSXML6, VBRUN6, VCRUN6, and WSH57.   Fonts look normal now, downloaded all the bibles and addons without any issue. 

 

I'm sure the instructions above are still good, but I would make sure to put your install in a bottle so you don't conflict with any other windows programs you are trying to run or vice versa.  I use Playonlinux for it, because it makes it easy to do and add dependencies.



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Posted 30 July 2021 - 06:20 AM

Like you, I'm a fan of e-sword. I have bought many different bibles, commentary's and other resources to help my studies and also for sermon development. I too was very disappointed when I saw e-sword would not work with Linux. It's Developers really need to do something about that. Many are turning to Linux just like I have. So after much travail and failure in trying to get it to work with Wine, Winetricks and Playonlinux, a new idea came to me. That idea was, what if I installed a Virtual Machine on my Linux with a Windows OS, would it run? So that's what I did. I downloaded a virtual machine from my Linux-Mint repository and then download a Windows 10 Home 32 bit iso. I installed the VM and then loaded the Win10 from the iso which I downloaded on the VM. I used the complete new install option when loading. I chose I don't have a product key option and it installed it just like it if you were placing it on a pc for the first time. It installed a loaded with no problem and now I was looking at a Windows 10 desktop on my VM while I was on Linux. By the way, I gave the VM 4gb to run Windows smoothly. The next thing I did was I downloaded e-sword. Yes the newest version! Here was the moment of truth, would it work?  The answers is yes! It works flawlessly! I can do everything with e-sword on the VM just as if it was on a regular Windows pc. I can copy and paste verses from e-sword in the VM and bring it to a Word Processor on my Linux and paste it in. I had a bit of a problem with that at first, but I soon found the solution. I not only had to enable bi-directional from the clipboard on the VM, but I had to install guest additions which is an option on the VM. 

 

So there you have it. If you want e-sword working on your Linux flawlessly you can use this option. Then like me, you can finally enjoy your Linux OS without looking back! Hopefully in the future the Developers of e-sword will one-day make an option for e-sword to run on Linux. But for now, I'm happy with VM because it does the job quite adequately.

 

 If any of you would like a link in how to setup a VM on your Linux or how to enable Guest Additions, just let me know. I tried to place the links here, but the board wouldn't allow it. You can find in how to do these things on youtube.


Edited by Eagle37, 30 July 2021 - 06:32 AM.


#17 DJPeter84

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Posted 18 December 2021 - 09:38 AM

Installing E-Sword on Linux using PlayOnLinux

 

Using PlayOnLinux

https://www.playonlinux.com/en/

 

My Specs:

Linux Mint 20.2 64-bit

PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4

 

E-Sword mostly works on POL.

 

But I could not get the Fonts menu to work (so you are stuck with the default settings).

Maybe someone can find a way to make it work?

 

[ after looking at the debug list, was able to trace the problem to https://www.playonlinux.com/en/topic-8693-SC2_for_POL_on_Unbuntu_1204_fails.html

 

and running


sudo apt-get install libjpeg62:i386

 

fixes the Font Settings issue ]

 

[NOTE: 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) ]

 

I adapted the steps for GTA2

 

http://www.gamersonl...o-2-guide.3090/ and The Last Express Guide

http://www.gamersonl...ess-guide.2494/

 

 

and I made the following changes….

 

 

1. Used Wine version 5.7 6.17 and created a 64 bits windows virtual drive.

 

2. Wine Configuration.
Application Tab.

Windows version: 10.

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

3. PlayOnLinux Packages (Components, DLLs, Libraries)

Check the following:

  • POL_Install_corefonts

  • POL_Install_d3dx9 (Since DirectX is employed by most Windows based games and advanced graphics programs)

  • POL_Install_tahoma

  • POL_Install_msxml3 (“a software component of Microsoft Windows Operating System by Microsoft. The core DLL for the Microsoft XML Core Services, this process provides the user with APIs that are compliant with the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) standards for programming XML apps…. a Windows DLL file. DLL is the abbreviation for Dynamic Link Library. DLL files are needed by programs or web browser extensions, because they contain program code, data, and resources.” https://www.file.net...msxml3.dll.html )

  • POL_Install_msxml6 (“The first version of MSXML to provide a 64-bit redistributable package. MSXML6 has made significant improvements over previous versions of MSXML. MSXML6 is intended as an upgrade path for existing MSXML3 and MSXML4 users except for users that leverage some of the older ProgIDs and technologies in MSXML3 and MSXML4.” https://download.cne...4-10725999.html )

  • msls31.dll (allows you to change the app theme; “the library file used by Internet Explorer and Word applications to provide Unicode support. msls31.dll is a system process that is needed for your PC to work properly.” https://www.processl...s/msls31/20463/ )

  • POL_Install_vcrun2010 (this allows e-sword to connect to internet and allow you to download resources; shows up as msvcr100 in wine config after install?)

  • d3dx10 (“Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms. A major update to DirectX API, DirectX 10 ships with and is only available with Windows Vista and later; previous versions of Windows such as Windows XP are not able to officially run DirectX 10-exclusive applications. Changes for DirectX 10 were extensive. Many former parts of DirectX API were deprecated in the latest DirectX SDK and will be preserved for compatibility only: DirectInput was deprecated in favor of XInput, DirectSound was deprecated in favor of the Cross-platform Audio Creation Tool system (XACT) and lost support for hardware accelerated audio, since Vista audio stack renders sound in software on the CPU. - Read more at https://www.shouldir...00-program.aspx

    https://www.shouldir...00-program.aspx )

4. Selected and installed

e-sword_1210_setup.exe

 

Note:

e-Sword 13 doesn't run on LINUX! Now what?

If you are unable to get the Windows Media Player installed under WINE, then the last stable version of e-Sword on LINUX is version 12.2 which you can download here:

https://www.e-sword...._1220_setup.exe

https://www.e-sword.net/faq.html

 

 

5. Named the Virtual Drive and Shortcut as: Esword

6. Did not specify Video memory size.

 

 

 

 

Maybe also install:

 

 

 

d3dx11 (but causes some text in toolbar to be small?)

d3dcompiler_43



Note: wine 5.11 causes some text in toolbar to be small?
Note: if you change wine version after install, close esword, change wine, and wait a bit for it to update; debugger:

wine: configuration in L"/home/peter/.PlayOnLinux//wineprefix/Esword12" has been updated.

 

 

POL_Install_d3dx9

  • POL_Install_d3dx9_36

  • POL_Install_devenum

  • POL_Install_mfc42

  • POL_Install_quartz

  • POL_Install_vcrun6

  • POL_Install_wmp9


 

Can also try/test…


 

Wine Configuration

Libraries Tab

Type each of the following

Click Add


 

d3d10

d3d10_1

d3d10core

d3d11

d3d9

dxgi


 

Select one at a time

Click Edit

Change to "Native (Windows)"

Click Apply


 

PlayOnLinux Packages (DLLs, Libraries, Components)


 

Check each of the following:


 

POL_Install_corefonts

POL_Install_d3dx10

POL_Install_d3dx11

POL_Install_d3dx9

POL_Install_tahoma


 

Click Next


 

(Taken from http://www.gamersonl...ier-guide.2982/ )

 



#18 JPMullins

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Posted 09 November 2023 - 07:04 PM

Can anyone adapt this to help me install esword to be able to run on my raspberry pi (rasbian 32 bit OS reccomended version)?
I am brand new to Linux and have no clue wear ini am doing, but really miss using this software on the desktop I had until recently..

#19 carl.fosse@gmail.com

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Posted 11 November 2023 - 07:49 AM

I am one of those who would very much like to use Linux exclusively, but I am completely inept at writing programming script for Linux or any other operating system.  Someone please create a simple installer for e-sword on Linux.



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Posted 11 November 2023 - 09:19 AM

Can anyone adapt this to help me install esword to be able to run on my raspberry pi (rasbian 32 bit OS reccomended version)?
I am brand new to Linux and have no clue wear ini am doing, but really miss using this software on the desktop I had until recently..

Here's a link that should help in installing wine for e-Sword; in case e-Sword does not run properly, you may have to use winetricks to install:  mfc42.dll, msls31, msxml3,  msxml6, vb6run, vcrun6, wsh57, corefonts, tahoma

 

Box 86 is to install Linux apps, not e-Sword.


Edited by PeanutGallery, 11 November 2023 - 09:20 AM.




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