E-sword
UPDATE! Making it work with 9.5 and Jaunty (9.04) Added missing steps!!
Welcome! I hope you enjoy this quick tutorial I made for all you Linux lovers out there!
Here is a quick tutorial to install e-Sword on Ubuntu Linux. e-Sword is one of the best bible study software out there, and the only reason I stayed with Windows as long as I did. It will be interesting to see if Rick Meyers will port it to a native linux program. Until then, follow these instructions to get e-Sword running in Ubuntu using Wine. Note: I tested this with Ubuntu 9.04 and Wine version 1.0
First, install wine using a command line interface:
1. go to: Applications>Add/Remove…
2. Click on All on the left hand pane. In the right hand pane, search for Synaptic Package Manager. Check it, click apply changes. If it asks for your password, enter it and click O.K. This step will install Synaptic which will be used in a later step.
3. Once Synaptic is installed (You should see it in System>Administration) Go to: Applications>Accessories>Terminal
4. In the terminal, past in the following and press enter (This will update Synaptic’s lists for Wine which is a Windows layer needed for running e-Sword):
wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
That will add the correct keys. Now do the following to get the correct wine sources:
For Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04):
sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/jaunty.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list
For Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10):
sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/intrepid.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list
For Ubuntu Hardy (8.04):
sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list
5. Next paste: sudo apt-get update
6. Close the terminal and go to: System>Administration>Synaptic Package Manager
7. In the search box on the top of Synaptic, type in Wine and click search. In the list that displays, scroll down until you find wine. Check it. You may get a pop up asking you to install dependencies that Wine needs. Click mark and continue to install Wine. Click Apply at the top, and when a pop up windows comes up, click Apply again. Wait for the program to install.
As a command line replacement for step 7, you could just paste: sudo apt-get install wine in the terminal window.
8. In the terminal, command line, paste
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
The above will install winetricks which is an important ingredient and one of the missing steps for installing the latest version of e-sword onto your Ubuntu machine.
9. Next, install cabextract by going to Synaptic Package Installer (Start>System>Admin>Synaptic Package Installer), type cabextract into the search, click the box to check cabextract, click apply, and it will be installed.
Alternatively, install cabextract by typing:
sudo apt-get install cabextract
10. Run winetricks by typing the following into a terminal window: sh winetricks
10.a. Check MFC42.dll to install it via winetricks
10.b. Check vcrun6 to install the Visual C 6 runtime modules
11. Go to www.e-sword.net and download the latest version of e-Sword.
12. When the download pop-up window comes up, choose to open (run) the program using Wine. Wait for it to download the e-Sword installer. It should automatically continue with the e-Sword installation wizard. If not, double click the install package.
13. Download msls31.dll from Dlldump.com.
14. Download Riched20.dll from Dlldump.com.
15. Copy the downloaded dll’s into the e-Sword directory by doing the following steps:
15.a.Places>Home Folder
15.b. Click on the view menu and check “Show Hidden Files”
15.c. Double Click .wine
15.d. Double click Drive_C
15.e. Double Click Program Files
15.f. Double Click E-Sword
15.g. Copy the two downloaded dll files into this directory
15.h. Also copy them into Windows/System32
16. go to: Applications>Wine>Configure Wine
17. Click on the Libraries Tab, and in the “New override for Library” drop down box, find Riched20, click add, apply, and ok. Do this for oleaut32 as well. Close out of Configure Wine.
18. go to: Applications>Other>E-Sword to run E-sword. Everything should work fine, including the Strong’s tool-tips pop-ups. Enjoy!
