TazOC wrote:Frank Cox,
I just tried installing
http://www.e-sword.net/files/setup951.exe to Wine 1.1.33 and got an "1152 Error extracting C:\Windows\Temp..." When I looked in that directory I found some .msi files and the setup.ini hints that the Windows Installer 'instmsiw.exe' may be needed. I don't know if wine can install it.
I tried this procedure (both installer & manual installation)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... ll+e-sword with version 9.51 and have not been successful with puppy. This procedure works great with ubuntu/Kubuntu and eSword runs much faster on them than on Windows. This is the main application that I miss from Windows. I have been able to get versions 8.05 and older to work, however, the default fonts (size 11) are too small and I haven't been able to change them which makes the program undesirable.
I hope that we can get esword to work on Lighthouse under wine. Thankfully, we have your Bibletime sfs which the best linux KDE alternative to eSword.
EDIT: I was successful in getting e-Sword 951 to run on Lighthouse. I took extreme shortcuts though, since I already had a successful installation using Kubuntu on my computer. I followed these steps to copy files from my Kubuntu installation to get it to work:
1. Copied .wine_Esword directory to the root directory, it shows up in the directory next to .wine.
2. Copied .wineeswordcache directory to the root directory.
3. Copied .winetrickscache directory to the root directory.
4. Copied .local/share/icons directory to the /root/.local/shares directory
5. Opened the .wine_Esword directory and deleted these files since they applied to the Kubuntu installation, .update-timestamp, userdef.reg, user.reg. These files will be regenerated when esword.exe is run.
6. Created an e-Sword.desktop file:
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Name=e-Sword
Exec=esword.sh
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Path=/root/.wine_Esword/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/e-Sword/
Icon=/root/.local/share/icons/0407_newshortcut2_7679641b0a7c4de18f8d8bdf4020e6db.0.png
Categories=WordProcessor
Note: esword.sh is created using a text editor to create an esword.txt file with this
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env WINEPREFIX=~/.wine_Esword wine "C:\Program Files\e-Sword\e-Sword.exe"
It must then be renamed to esword.sh, made executable using
and placed in the bin directory.
7. E-Sword may be run using the esword.sh file, the e-sword.desktop file or from a console using this
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env WINEPREFIX=~/.wine_Esword wine "C:\Program Files\e-Sword\e-Sword.exe"
This is a roundabout way to get e-Sword 951 to work, however, now we know for sure that we can run it in Lighthouse. Also, the real advantage of this approach is that if you have a working e-Sword using wine that you may easily create a backup by copying the above files to your backup location, also the installation is portable and may be transferred to other computers. This is possible because Rick Meyers chose not to use the Windows registry for his e-Sword program.
TazOC,
Do you know why the drive icons are changing with the jwm desktop as seen on the attached screenshot?
Thanks,
Jim