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

Bibletime bt-devel@crosswire.org
Mon, 9 Sep 2002 06:32:19 +1000


Yes. it contains:

[Install]
DataPath=/usr/share/sword

Regards
Brad

On Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:41, Joachim Ansorg wrote:
> 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