[sword-devel] Modules Don't Work

[Isaac Dunham]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 01:13:42AM -0700, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> Dear Isaac,
> 
> While your information is not inaccurate, it can be quite confusing.
> 
> SWORD, by default, configures itself to save global modules under
> /usr/share/sword/
> 
> Your instructions are not what must be done, as you have said "you will have
> to..."  Your configuration is a choice to install modules privately only for
> a single user account.  The default configuration also supports this, as
> SWORD will first look at the global path (/usr/share/sword/) and then
> ~/.sword/ and augment modules found there as well.
Thank you for correcting me.

> While installmgr previously did not output proper errors when it could not
> write to the output path, this is no longer the case for a while now.

Might I ask when this was fixed? I ran into it with 1.7.3.

> Your information might be helpful, but I hope next time you might preface it
> with a clause something like: "I find that the default configuration to
> store files globally is more trouble than it is worth.  I have change my
> configuration to always install modules to my single user home directory."
> 
> Troy
> 

Thank you and God bless,
Isaac Dunham

> 
> On 08/29/2014 05:51 PM, Isaac Dunham wrote:
> >Hello Jon,
> >I've run into issues with installmgr not working as documented previously;
> >here's some notes:
> >1. If you used sudo, be sure to "sudo rm -r ~/.sword" before trying to
> >set things up.
> >Otherwise, you may be dealing with read-only config files and install paths.
> >
> >2. Before installing anything, you will have to create
> >~/.sword/sword.conf containing this:
> >===
> >[INSTALL]
> >DataPath=/home/<username>/.sword
> >===
> >where <username> stands for your login name.
> >
> >A shortcut in the console:
> >mkdir ~/.sword && \
> >printf "[INSTALL]\nDataPath=$HOME/.sword\n" >~/.sword/sword.conf
> >
> >This can be done after syncing the repositories if you prefer.
> >
> >You may wish to check if /etc/sword.conf contains anything beyond
> >a similar directive.
> >
> >3. installmgr will report success when it didn't succeed due to read-only
> >DataPath.
> >To check whether the modules are installed, I suggest:
> >diatheke -b system -k modulelist
> >
> >
> >Hope this helps you,
> >Isaac Dunham
> >
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