[bt-devel] Can't get Bibletime to run properly...

[Joachim Ansorg]

Does the file /etc/sword.conf exist on your system?

Joachim


> I know that this is supposed to be a developer's list, but I need some help
> getting bibletime to run.
>
> I have a Red Hat 7.3 workstation and I have firstly downloaded
> bibletime-1.2.1.tar.bz2 and followed the instructions for installation. I
> also downloaded Sword and installed it and the KJVlite module and unzipped
> it into /usr/share/sword.
>
> I then downloaded bibletime-doc-1.2.1.tar.bz2 and installed it.
>
> However, I still couldn't get it to run.
>
> By this time the Red Hat 7.3 RPMs (bibletime-1.2.1-1.rh73.i386.rpm and
> bibletime-doc-1.2.1-1.rh73.noarch.rpm) had been released and so I ran a
> "make uninstall" and then installed the RPMs. While the KJVlite module had
> already been installed, I re-installed it again and started Bibletime.
>
> On startup, I get:
>
> Chapter 7. No modules installed!
> There are no installed Sword modules!
>
> Does anyone know why this is hapenning?
>
> Now in complete frustration, I have downloaded the Gnomesword RPM and tried
> to install it:
>
> rpm -ivh gnomesword-0.7.3-7.3.2.i386.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
>         libsword.so.1   is needed by gnomesword-0.7.3-7.3.2
>
> It seems that Linux has a LOOOOOOOOOOOOONG way to be as user-friendly as
> Windows.
>
> Regards,
> Brad