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How do Install esword on an Ubantu platform?

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# You must install wine and winetricks.

# Using bash script in your terminal. Don't type in the lines with # at the start.

# It works great in Ubuntu 18.04. I just did it and it works great. 7-16-2018

# How to install e-Sword bible software in Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS 64-bit using a bash script

# prerequisites: wine 2.0 or newer, winetricks wsh56 mfc42 vcrun6

# Your first command with sudo at the start should ask for your password.

# copy-paste each line below one by one into the Linux Terminal and hit return:

# Last updated on October 23, 2017

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install wget

wget -nc --no-check-certificate https://dl.winehq.or...lds/Release.key

sudo apt-key add Release.key

sudo apt-add-repository https://dl.winehq.or...-builds/ubuntu/

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install unp build-essential checkinstall

sudo apt-get install wine-staging winetricks

winetricks wsh56 mfc42 vcrun6 msls31 msxml3 * vbrun6 wsh57

cd /tmp

rm -rf download*

rm -rf setup*

# URL="http://www.e-sword.net/"

# wget --no-check-certificate `echo $URL`downloads.html

# FILENAME=`grep setup downloads.html |cut -d"\"" -f2|head -n 1`

# wget --no-check-certificate `echo $URL``echo $FILENAME`

wget --no-check-certificate http://www.e-sword.n...s/setup1110.exe

wine setup*

cd

cd ".wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/e-Sword"

wine e-Sword.exe

# and here are alternatives for e-Sword:

# http://alternativeto...?platform=linux