Installing eSword on Ubuntu Christian Edition

[reinhardforjesus]

Hi there,

I want to install e-Sword to Ubuntu Christian Edition but the application never installs, I thought it was a permissions problem, but does not seem to be working even if manually creating the e-Sword directory.

Commands that I use:

https://phoenixnap.com/kb/how-to-install-wine-on-ubuntu
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=332566
sudo winetricks dotnet40

System information:

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`:+ssssssssssssssssss+:` reinhard@reinhard-MS-7D36
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/ssssssssssshdmmNNmmyNMMMMhssssss/ UbuntuCE 22.04
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/sssssssshNMMMyhhyyyyhmNMMMNhssssssss/ Host: MS-7D36 2.0
.ssssssssdMMMNhsssssssssshNMMMdssssssss. Kernel: 5.19.0-46-generic
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.ssssssssdMMMNhsssssssssshNMMMdssssssss. DE: GNOME 42.9
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`:+ssssssssssssssssss+:` CPU: 13th Gen Intel i5-13600KF (20) @ 5.100GHz
.-/+oossssoo+/-. GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650
Memory: 10125MiB / 31942MiB

"Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of
God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and
perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the
world;" Philippians 2:14,15

Please let me know if you are able to help?

reinhard@reinhard-MS-7D36:~/Downloads$ cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)
reinhard@reinhard-MS-7D36:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)$ ls
'Common Files' 'Internet Explorer' 'Windows Media Player' 'Windows NT'
reinhard@reinhard-MS-7D36:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)$
reinhard@reinhard-MS-7D36:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)$
reinhard@reinhard-MS-7D36:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)$
reinhard@reinhard-MS-7D36:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)$ ls ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files
Program Files/ Program Files (x86)/
reinhard@reinhard-MS-7D36:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)$ ls ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files
'Common Files' e-Sword 'Internet Explorer' 'Windows Media Player' 'Windows NT'
reinhard@reinhard-MS-7D36:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)$
sudo winetricks dotnet40

The e-Sword installer runs perfectly but it does not actually install the actual software!!!! Where is the installed files?

HELP!!!!

[DarkShadow44]

Don't sudo wine or winetricks! Can you link the program? Then I can try.

[mwettach]

I am using Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia which is an Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy variant.
I was successful installing e-Sword on Wine 9.0 using the following steps.
App start is a bit laggy and displaying a dictionary's keyword list is extremely slow, otherwise it seems to run fine.
I was able to download and use all my E-Sword content, including purchased modules.

# Enable 32bit architecture (not default in newer Ubuntus)
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

# Get Wine
sudo wget -O /etc/apt/keyrings/winehq-archive.key https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key

# Add the Wine Repo
sudo wget -NP /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubunt ... my.sources

# Install Wine - in my case I got Wine 9.0
sudo apt update && sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

# Install Winetricks
sudo apt install winetricks

# Make sure your winetricks is up-to-date (probably unnecessary)
sudo winetricks --self-update

# Create a 32-bit prefix and install Windows Media Player 11
# This will also install Wine-Mono
WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=${HOME}/e-sword winetricks -q wmp11

# Install E-Sword in the new prefix:
WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=${HOME}/e-sword wine /home/user/Downloads/e-Sword/e-sword_1300_setup.exe

# Run E-Sword (or use the starter icon that gets created)
cd "${HOME}/e-sword/drive_c/Program Files/e-Sword"
wine e-Sword.exe

[mwettach]

The e-sword installer can be found here: https://www.e-sword.net/downloads.html

[DarkShadow44]

Ah you managed to get it working? Good to hear!