Linux version of Logos Bible Software

Congratulations! Very good work! I am encouraged. Please keep working on this. Question. So the extra RAM usage. . . Is it from Logos running under wine, or are you saying that you have a different VM running in the background?

Right.  I use KVM to run a version of Windows that I run Logos in, and I'm doing it on a machine with 16g of ram.  Ideally, using WINE would be much better.  I'd love to be able to run Logos on a lighter weight laptop.

Regarding the downloading books problem, I'm assuming it's some kind of Windows library that Logos is trying to rely on which is missing under WINE, but without proper error messages that would be hard to find.  Are you seeing anything interesting by running "wine /path/to/Logos.exe &> wine.log"?

David J. Ring, Jr. said:

Where do we find Rik's instructions? It would be wonderful to download books. Will it accept your email and tell you what books you own?

Go to this page for the instructions: https://community.logos.com/forums/t/121.aspx?PageIndex=25

Not the same as running Logos 8 natively on Linux, but you can make https://app.logos.com into a desktop app (sorta, you'll still need to be connected to the internet to use it, just like you would the website).

Install nodejs. On Ubuntu, you can just run

sudo apt install nodejs

Then install nativefier

npm install -g nativefier

Then you can create a program with

nativefier --name "Logos" --single-instance "https://app.logos.com"

It will create a directory called logos-linux-x64 (assuming you are running 64 bit Linux) with a program called "logos" in it, and all the needed dependencies to run the app.

Optionally, if you want a fuller desktop experience, checkout my nativefier-webapps repo on github: https://github.com/timotheosh/nativefier-webapps. I have a desktop file and icon for the program you can use, and build scripts that can create similar applications for Gmail, Evernote, and several other web applications I use frequently.

Sure, if resources are a concern, and one already uses Chrome. Nativefier makes this a separate application to your desktop, that has its own menu entry, icon, and process. Sometimes, it makes sense to reason about a webapp separately from one's "browsing tasks". You can even build the app with "--tray start-in-tray" so it starts up hidden and available in one's system tray. Besides, the separate Electron app is still lighter than running Logos 8 on Wine.

That’s great progress! Finally.

Rik,

You are truly my hero brother.  Do you know how long I have been waiting for this?  Years and years! I've known for a long time that Faithlife would never work on a Linux port.  I've known that there would need to be a community effort. Your persistence, and that of others, has shown that it will indeed be possible to run Logos on Linux without any kind of virtual machine technology.  This is fantastic news!!!!  

As a Linux guy who loves to dig into the text of Scripture this is huge for me.  I have been able to run Bibleworks under WINE for years, but Logos has leapfroged Bibleworks in many ways, and now that BW is defunct the future is clearly with Logos.

Unfortunately, since I've accepted a pastoral call to a new church, and am the throes of moving from South Texas to Northern Illinois (any Logos/Linux users in the Grayslake area???), I have pretty much zero time to experiment with things.  However, as time permits, I will look at your instructions and try to give them a whirl.

Thank you, thank you, thank you brother for your persistence and work!!!!

Blessings,

Adam

Adam,

Thanks for the encouragement. We also have been waiting for *years* for this one, and as we support many mother-tongue Bible translators that use Linux but also www.sil.org has moved to Logos for their translation resources it has stood as the *primary* software tool not available for Linux for these users.

Thanks go to @John Goodman and especially a certain Louis Lenders who provided the actual patch. I would not have been able to do that myself. Instead I only stand as the lowly tester that kept trying beyond hope to see if it would work, and behold it came together.

I do hope that I can help facilitate any traction in getting this patch "mainlined" so it is part of Wine. Then it would just be a matter of installing Wine, installing .NET 4.7.2 via winetricks, and then installing Logos. There may be some additional minor tweaks such as making sure the correct fonts get installed, etc.

So again all thanks go to the Wine developers, but all praise to Him!

For those feeling daunted by building from src a prebuilt deb for 64bit systems is here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=128wjpqsTOqNQXMqOvuuv7pCpdgIQ74t8

Enjoy!

Should be compatible with Ubuntu / Kubuntu 19.04. That's what I'm running.

Unfortunately, I get Logos to install, but it continually crashes when starting up and trying to synchronize.

The only thing different from the instructions is that it builds against WINE dev 4.17 instead of 4.16, since 4.17 must have just been released.

The install is on a 32bit version of Kubuntu in a VM.

I'm inserting the WINE backtrace log.  See anything in here which could be an outstanding problem?

Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000000 in 32-bit code (0x0a621ced).
Register dump:
 CS:0073 SS:007b DS:007b ES:007b FS:0033 GS:003b
 EIP:0a621ced ESP:1aeee2b0 EBP:1aeee33c EFLAGS:00010202(  R- --  I   - - - )
 EAX:185a8750 EBX:185a8718 ECX:00000000 EDX:1aeee30c
 ESI:187fe9a8 EDI:00000000
Stack dump:
0x1aeee2b0:  00000000 00000000 00000000 1aeee30c
0x1aeee2c0:  31d5063b 1aeee454 185a8718 00000000
0x1aeee2d0:  0a6ef72c 00000000 1aeee201 0a6ef72c
0x1aeee2e0:  00000000 00000001 17a40000 1aeee510
0x1aeee2f0:  00000008 1aeee2fc 00000000 00000000
0x1aeee300:  0a6ef72c 187fe9a8 1aeee301 b5e5b8d8
Backtrace:
=>0 0x0a621ced EntryPoint+0xffffffff() in libronix.digitallibrary.native. (0x1aeee33c)
  1 0x0a611fd3 EntryPoint+0xffffffff() in libronix.digitallibrary.native. (0x1aeee384)
  2 0x0a612220 EntryPoint+0xffffffff() in libronix.digitallibrary.native. (0x1aeee3b4)
  3 0x0a5dfc33 EntryPoint+0xffffffff() in libronix.digitallibrary.native. (0x1aeee7bc)
  4 0x0a5e1a9d EntryPoint+0xffffffff() in libronix.digitallibrary.native. (0x1aeeea18)
  5 0x0a5e271a EntryPoint+0xffffffff() in libronix.digitallibrary.native. (0x1aeeeae0)
  6 0x1b8d6c87 (0x1aeeeb5c)
  7 0x1b8d6afb (0x1aeeeb78)
  8 0x1b89e399 (0x1aeeebc4)
  9 0x1b89deb2 (0x1aeeebf4)
  10 0x1b89da5e (0x1aeeec18)
  11 0x0ff1aeb4 (0x1aeeec38)
  12 0x0ff1a5dc (0x1aeeec54)
  13 0x191a68f3 (0x1aeeec90)
  14 0x191a65d1 (0x1aeeecbc)
  15 0x191a784b (0x1aeeecf8)
  16 0x79ab5412 in mscorlib.ni (+0x395411) (0x1aeeed64)
  17 0x79b0d836 in mscorlib.ni (+0x3ed835) (0x1aeeed78)
  18 0x79ab8410 in mscorlib.ni (+0x39840f) (0x1aeeed94)
  19 0x79ab7b72 in mscorlib.ni (+0x397b71) (0x1aeeede4)
  20 0x79ab79da in mscorlib.ni (+0x3979d9) (0x1aeeedf4)
  21 0x037f1d50 EntryPoint+0xffffffff() in clr (0x1aeeee48)
  22 0x037f7764 EntryPoint+0xffffffff() in clr (0x1aeeeebc)
  23 0x0392f883 EntryPoint+0x136c82() in clr (0x1aeeef3c)
  24 0x0392e269 EntryPoint+0x135668() in clr (0x1aeeef50)
  25 0x0392e2d3 EntryPoint+0x1356d2() in clr (0x1aeeeff4)
  26 0x0392e3a0 EntryPoint+0x13579f() in clr (0x1aeef050)
  27 0x0392e40f EntryPoint+0x13580e() in clr (0x1aeef074)
  28 0x0392f811 EntryPoint+0x136c10() in clr (0x1aeef124)
  29 0x0392e66b EntryPoint+0x135a6a() in clr (0x1aeef1a4)
  30 0x038762d1 EntryPoint+0x7d6d0() in clr (0x1aeeff3c)
  31 0x7bca90cc call_thread_func_wrapper+0xb() in ntdll (0x1aeeff4c)
  32 0x7bcac8de RtlCaptureStackBackTrace+0x21d() in ntdll (0x1aeeffdc)
  33 0x7bca90be call_thread_exit_func+0x31() in ntdll (0x1aeeffec)
0x0a621ced EntryPoint+0xffffffff in libronix.digitallibrary.native.: movl    0x0(%ecx),%eax
Modules:
Module    Address            Debug info    Name (204 modules)
PE      400000- 34b0000    Deferred        logos
PE     37e0000- 3ece000    Export          clr
PE     3ed0000- 3fc5000    Deferred        msvcr120_clr0400
PE     65a0000- 6fb0000    Deferred        system.ni
PE     6fb0000- 7b5e000    Deferred        presentationcore.ni
PE     7b70000- 7cb9000    Deferred        wpfgfx_v0400
PE     7cc0000- 7d38000    Deferred        msvcp120_clr0400
PE     7d40000- 7e0a000    Deferred        presentationnative_v0400
PE     7e10000- 7e90000    Deferred        clrjit
PE     8040000- 8053000    Deferred        nlssorting
PE     8d10000- 8d1e000    Deferred        evrpresenter
PE     9180000- 91b7000    Deferred        sxs
PE     9230000- 996e000    Deferred        system.xml.ni
PE     9f80000- a2d0000    Deferred        system.data
PE     a2f0000- a3bb000    Deferred        sqlite3
PE     a3c0000- a3c3000    Deferred        api-ms-win-crt-time-l1-1-0
PE     a4e0000- a775000    Export          libronix.digitallibrary.native
PE     a890000- a9d6000    Deferred        winmm
PE     afb0000- b505000    Deferred        libronix.digitallibrary.resources.native
PE     b510000- b55d000    Deferred        easyhook
PE     b560000- b6be000    Deferred        icuin52
PE     b6c0000- b733000    Deferred        libxml2
PE     cea0000- cead000    Deferred        api-ms-win-core-winrt-string-l1-1-0
PE     eb40000- eb85000    Deferred        system.numerics.ni
PE     f820000- fbed000    Deferred        comctl32
PE     ff30000- ff3b000    Deferred        v8helper
PE    10000000-1007d000    Deferred        mscoreei
PE    10350000-10b34000    Deferred        system.data.ni
PE    18b40000-18ec6000    Deferred        d3dcompiler_47
PE    1a420000-1a43a000    Deferred        mscorsecimpl
PE    1a670000-1a68f000    Deferred        clrcompression
PE    1af00000-1b2c0000    Deferred        v8
PE    22650000-22738000    Deferred        diasymreader
PE    26100000-26e1d000    Deferred        system.windows.forms.ni
PE    4a800000-4a90d000    Deferred        icuuc52
PE    4ad00000-4b599000    Deferred        icudt52
PE    512a0000-5155b000    Deferred        system.runtime.serialization.ni
PE    56610000-57917000    Deferred        presentationframework.ni
PE    580d0000-582c4000    Deferred        system.xaml.ni
PE    584e0000-588d3000    Deferred        windowsbase.ni
PE    60370000-6046c000    Deferred        system.configuration.ni
PE    61a00000-621e0000    Deferred        system.core.ni
PE    622c0000-622c3000    Deferred        api-ms-win-crt-filesystem-l1-1-0
PE    62740000-6274d000    Deferred        api-ms-win-core-xstate-l2-1-0
PE    62800000-628bc000    Deferred        usp10
PE    62940000-6296a000    Deferred        imagehlp
PE    63340000-63344000    Deferred        api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0
PE    63a00000-63a03000    Deferred        api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0
PE    63ac0000-63ada000    Deferred        dwmapi
PE    64700000-6473c000    Deferred        concrt140
PE    64b40000-64b78000    Deferred        shcore
PE    64d10000-64ddf000    Deferred        system.security.ni
PE    65980000-6599a000    Deferred        version
PE    66640000-66696000    Deferred        msacm32
PE    66700000-66781000    Deferred        rsaenh
PE    66c80000-66cf1000    Deferred        msvcp140
PE    67800000-67848000    Deferred        combase
PE    68c40000-68d3a000    Deferred        shlwapi
PE    69580000-69584000    Deferred        api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0
PE    69d80000-69d83000    Deferred        api-ms-win-crt-environment-l1-1-0
PE    69e80000-69ee9000    Deferred        propsys
PE    6a300000-6a64c000    Deferred        oleaut32
PE    6a6c0000-6a6c3000    Deferred        api-ms-win-crt-utility-l1-1-0
PE    6a900000-6aa71000    Deferred        setupapi
PE    6b5c0000-6b625000    Deferred        explorerframe
PE    6ba80000-6ba8c000    Deferred        api-ms-win-core-fibers-l1-1-1
PE    6bf00000-6bf1b000    Deferred        schannel
PE    6c0c0000-6c0fb000    Deferred        imm32
PE    6c300000-6c30d000    Deferred        api-ms-win-appmodel-runtime-l1-1-2
PE    6d780000-6d784000    Deferred        api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0
PE    6dbc0000-6dc07000    Deferred        mpr
PE    6df80000-6df84000    Deferred        api-ms-win-crt-string-l1-1-0
PE    6e540000-6e54d000    Deferred        api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0
PE    6e8c0000-6e8cd000    Deferred        api-ms-win-core-localization-l1-2-1
PE    6ecc0000-6ecd5000    Deferred        vcruntime140
PE    6fb40000-6fc74000    Deferred        d3d9
PE    6fdc0000-6ff8e000    Deferred        rpcrt4
PE    70180000-7018d000    Deferred        api-ms-win-core-quirks-l1-1-0
PE    70780000-70785000    Deferred        api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0
PE    71240000-71432000    Deferred        kernelbase
PE    71440000-71481000    Deferred        jsproxy
PE    79000000-7904a000    Deferred        mscoree
PE    79720000-7aa9e000    Export          mscorlib.ni
PE    7aea0000-7b034000    Deferred        system.drawing.ni
ELF    7b400000-7b829000    Deferred        kernel32<elf>
  \-PE    7b420000-7b829000    \               kernel32
ELF    7bc00000-7bd3e000    Dwarf           ntdll<elf>
  \-PE    7bc30000-7bd3e000    \               ntdll
ELF    7c000000-7c004000    Deferred        <wine-loader>
ELF    7ee9e000-7eeb2000    Deferred        libnss_files.so.2
ELF    7eeb2000-7eecd000    Deferred        libnsl.so.1
ELF    7eecd000-7eedb000    Deferred        libnss_nis.so.2
ELF    7eedb000-7efdd000    Deferred        libm.so.6
ELF    aa0ac000-aa100000    Deferred        libgssapi_krb5.so.2
ELF    aa424000-aa500000    Deferred        libkrb5.so.3
ELF    ab01a000-ab04f000    Deferred        libk5crypto.so.3
ELF    ab072000-ab0b8000    Deferred        netapi32<elf>
  \-PE    ab080000-ab0b8000    \               netapi32
ELF    ab0b8000-ab0ff000    Deferred        secur32<elf>
  \-PE    ab0c0000-ab0ff000    \               secur32
ELF    ac505000-ac51d000    Deferred        libresolv.so.2
ELF    ac51d000-ac5fe000    Deferred        windowscodecs<elf>
  \-PE    ac540000-ac5fe000    \               windowscodecs
ELF    ad706000-ad70b000    Deferred        libkeyutils.so.1
ELF    ad75a000-ad7fd000    Deferred        wininet<elf>
  \-PE    ad770000-ad7fd000    \               wininet
ELF    ae104000-ae111000    Deferred        libkrb5support.so.0
ELF    ae111000-ae12d000    Deferred        kerberos<elf>
  \-PE    ae120000-ae12d000    \               kerberos
ELF    ae12d000-ae17e000    Deferred        winhttp<elf>
  \-PE    ae140000-ae17e000    \               winhttp
ELF    af503000-af508000    Deferred        libcom_err.so.2
ELF    af508000-af50f000    Deferred        libnss_dns.so.2
ELF    af50f000-af513000    Deferred        libnss_mdns4_minimal.so.2
ELF    b0d83000-b0da6000    Deferred        libtinfo.so.5
ELF    b0da6000-b0ddd000    Deferred        libedit.so.2
ELF    b0ddd000-b0de6000    Deferred        libatomic.so.1
ELF    b0de6000-b0e04000    Deferred        libgcc_s.so.1
ELF    b0f8a000-b0f94000    Deferred        libdrm_nouveau.so.2
ELF    b0f94000-b0f9f000    Deferred        libdrm_amdgpu.so.1
ELF    b0f9f000-b0fbd000    Deferred        libelf.so.1
ELF    b0fbd000-b0fcb000    Deferred        libdrm_radeon.so.1
ELF    b0fcb000-b0fdb000    Deferred        libsensors.so.4
ELF    b0fdb000-b47c2000    Deferred        libllvm-8.so.1
ELF    b47c2000-b56d3000    Deferred        swrast_dri.so
ELF    b56d3000-b56db000    Deferred        libxcb-sync.so.1
ELF    b56db000-b56df000    Deferred        libxcb-present.so.0
ELF    b56df000-b56fc000    Deferred        libxcb-glx.so.0
ELF    b56fc000-b5710000    Deferred        libdrm.so.2
ELF    b5710000-b572f000    Deferred        libglapi.so.0
ELF    b572f000-b57a6000    Deferred        libglx_mesa.so.0
ELF    b57c9000-b5828000    Deferred        libgldispatch.so.0
ELF    b5828000-b5971000    Deferred        opengl32<elf>
  \-PE    b5860000-b5971000    \               opengl32
ELF    b5971000-b5b00000    Deferred        wined3d<elf>
  \-PE    b59b0000-b5b00000    \               wined3d
ELF    b5c02000-b5c07000    Deferred        libxcb-dri3.so.0
ELF    b5c07000-b5c0b000    Deferred        libxdamage.so.1
ELF    b5c2b000-b5c4e000    Deferred        libglx.so.0
ELF    b5c4e000-b5caf000    Deferred        libgl.so.1
ELF    b5caf000-b5cdc000    Deferred        iphlpapi<elf>
  \-PE    b5cc0000-b5cdc000    \               iphlpapi
ELF    b5cdc000-b5de8000    Deferred        msvcr120<elf>
  \-PE    b5d10000-b5de8000    \               msvcr120
ELF    b5de8000-b5f03000    Deferred        ucrtbase<elf>
  \-PE    b5e20000-b5f03000    \               ucrtbase
ELF    b5f03000-b5f3f000    Deferred        ws2_32<elf>
  \-PE    b5f10000-b5f3f000    \               ws2_32
ELF    b5f3f000-b6950000    Deferred        shell32<elf>
  \-PE    b5f70000-b6950000    \               shell32
ELF    b6950000-b69da000    Deferred        dwrite<elf>
  \-PE    b6960000-b69da000    \               dwrite
ELF    b69da000-b6a65000    Deferred        libgmp.so.10
ELF    b6a65000-b6a9b000    Deferred        libhogweed.so.4
ELF    b6a9b000-b6ad7000    Deferred        libnettle.so.6
ELF    b6ad7000-b6aec000    Deferred        libtasn1.so.6
ELF    b6aec000-b6c6d000    Deferred        libunistring.so.2
ELF    b6c6d000-b6dbb000    Deferred        libp11-kit.so.0
ELF    b6dbb000-b6f51000    Deferred        libgnutls.so.30
ELF    b6f51000-b7049000    Deferred        crypt32<elf>
  \-PE    b6f70000-b7049000    \               crypt32
ELF    b70a0000-b70a6000    Deferred        libxcb-dri2.so.0
ELF    b70a6000-b70af000    Deferred        libffi.so.6
ELF    b70af000-b70b2000    Deferred        libxshmfence.so.1
ELF    b70d2000-b70f7000    Deferred        bcrypt<elf>
  \-PE    b70e0000-b70f7000    \               bcrypt
ELF    b713d000-b7144000    Deferred        libxfixes.so.3
ELF    b7144000-b7150000    Deferred        libxcursor.so.1
ELF    b7150000-b7163000    Deferred        libxi.so.6
ELF    b7163000-b7167000    Deferred        libxcomposite.so.1
ELF    b7167000-b7174000    Deferred        libxrandr.so.2
ELF    b7174000-b7180000    Deferred        libxrender.so.1
ELF    b7180000-b7187000    Deferred        libxxf86vm.so.1
ELF    b7187000-b718b000    Deferred        libxinerama.so.1
ELF    b718b000-b7195000    Deferred        librt.so.1
ELF    b7195000-b71b0000    Deferred        libbsd.so.0
ELF    b71b0000-b71b7000    Deferred        libxdmcp.so.6
ELF    b71b7000-b71bb000    Deferred        libxau.so.6
ELF    b71bb000-b71e7000    Deferred        libxcb.so.1
ELF    b71e7000-b7331000    Deferred        libx11.so.6
ELF    b7331000-b7346000    Deferred        libxext.so.6
ELF    b7346000-b7349000    Deferred        libx11-xcb.so.1
ELF    b7349000-b7367000    Deferred        libidn2.so.0
ELF    b7369000-b7423000    Deferred        winex11<elf>
  \-PE    b7390000-b7423000    \               winex11
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Hello, for some reason I am not able to download the DEB file from Google Drive. I have tried different Operating Systems and Browsers. Many thanks

http://mega.nz is also excellent (and free).

The response to this thread shows that there's an interest in Logos for Linux.

Thanks for your work.  I tried converting the deb file to Arch Linux format but there are some dependencies not available.

It would be very useful to know what systems people have it working on. Especially which graphics card you have and whether there are any visual issues. Also if anyone with a dual boot system can compare performance? I have a sense that some things are faster but some things are slower too. Any bugs please let me know so we can work on it. So far it is working very well but we have a few known issues in the google doc.

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wine-devel-amd64:
 wine-devel-amd64 depends on libc6 (>= 2.29); however:
  Version of libc6:amd64 on system is 2.28-10.
 wine-devel-amd64 depends on libfaudio0 (>= 19.06.07); however:
  Package libfaudio0 is not installed.
 wine-devel-amd64 depends on libvkd3d1 (>= 1.0); however:
  Package libvkd3d1 is not installed.
 wine-devel-amd64 depends on ocl-icd-libopencl1 | libopencl1; however:
  Package ocl-icd-libopencl1 is not installed.
  Package libopencl1 is not installed.
 wine-devel-amd64 depends on ocl-icd-libopencl1 (>= 1.0) | libopencl-1.1-1; however:
  Package ocl-icd-libopencl1 is not installed.
  Package libopencl-1.1-1 is not installed.

So maybe I will have to use Ubuntu even though I don't like Ubuntu because it's missing lots of console applications that Debian still supports.

David

John Goodman said:

Not necessarily... if you can install wine 4.17 from repos then you might get away with just using the kernalbase.dll.so file from my deb and adding it as if a native override. I don't have instructions yet but it would be good if someone could try that approach? It would make it quicker and easier to track with updates. I'm also keen to do a bit with the patch because I think I can squeeze a little extra performance from it.

On Ubuntu 18.04 64bit I have tested by installing "winehq-devel" from the WineHQ PPA, then replaced only the /opt/wine-devel/lib/wine/kernelbase.dll file with the 32bit version from my test 32bit machine. I was then able to install and use Logos. I have NOT tested with a 64bit wine, but am sticking to 32bit wine for now, but assume it would work. The file location for that would be /opt/wine-devel/lib64/wine/kernelbase.dll

Hi All.  You may have noticed that a few of my posts just showed up in this conversation, but they are showing up prior to this and other more recent posts.  This is because they had apparently been flagged as spam and were awaiting moderation.  I called a Logos representative who was able to approve the posts and send them through.  If you are reading this sir, thank you for your help!

This post is simply to call attention to my earlier announcement about a Telegram channel I created to discuss this matter.  I addition to this venue I thought it would be good to create a chat channel where a more fluid discussion could take place for those who are trying to sort out this phenomenal development - that Logos is now finally truly running natively under Linux.  If you are interested in trying to make the process of setting this up easier for all interested parties, please join the Telegram group at - https://t.me/linux_logos.  You'll need a Telegram account for this.  Hoping that Rik Shaw and John Goodman can join for sure!

Blessings,

Adam

Hmm.  I didn't even know there was such a thing.  I googled that and came to this site.

https://faithlife.com/christian-social-network/about

Is that what you are talking about?  That really looks like a different kind of forum software.  I'm trying to open up a avenue for discussion that is less like a web forum and more like IRC or some kind of real time chat.  If others have preferences for something like that, I'm all ears.  The Telegram group is up and going though.

Rick and John and everyone else working on this.  Thanks so much for all of the work.  For the first time ever I have been able to install and run Logos directly under Linux without the use of any virtual machine.  It's great.

Unfortunately, I am having some showstopping bugs.  I don't know if there is a better place to report bugs so I will report it here.

As I said, Logos installs and runs fine.  However it is not able to index my library.  I have tried four different installations.  Three have been on bare metal and one in a VM and the results have been the same every time.  When I run top, I see that the Logos indexer is running.  It usually runs for a few hours and then crashes.

Here is a screen shot of the WINE error message that pops up.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/RescAP4YuEdDaDAC9

Here is the WINE backtrace file.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G4PKFBAkUAfqQriy1Xe003CerbP5HUPj_zkWBMscw0E/edit?usp=sharing

Here is a screenshot of the last bit of terminal output.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/QtBKL9mdpxgTgLRHA

What is the consequence of this bug for me?  Well, whenever I right click on a word in my library and do any kind of search for it, I get zero hits.  That's why I'm calling this a showstopper.  I primarily use Logos to do exegesis and that involves various kinds of searches.

How can I provide further feedback that will help with this?

Thanks!

Adam

John,

Thank you so much for your help!  I have messaged you back on Telegram.  Your suggestions paid off and I now have Logos running VERY WELL natively on Linux.  Most importantly searching now works which you can see in this screenshot.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/BQcNT6TaQLvQ8EXC7

For all the rest of you who are following this thread, things are getting really, really close now.  There are still some remaining bugs to be sure, but things are now at a state where Logos running natively on Linux with WINE is very usable.  

I plan to keep testing and trying to help where I can.  John, I think the suggestions you made to me are going to have to be factored into the process for new users.  I don't know if you've been able to test if this is needed on a fresh install or not.

Rik, hats off to you brother!  Thanks for the work.

Let me encourage those who have Linux experience to dive in.  Help is needed in testing,  reporting bugs, and debugging things in WINE.  The links are scattered throughout this thread, but for those who need the reference here are some good links to check out.

The Google Doc with documentation, resolved bugs, and unresolved bugs

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gms_Bc2Q_OOH3G5lmP6twXnqiSWxrFFT7lCN3nRyymw/edit

The WINEHQ app page for Logs 8 with a list of known bugs

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=38306

Bill thanks for trying. The more people try the more issues we are managing to iron out. If you can share issues with using comments on the google doc or in the telegram group that would be ace.

Thanks Rik and John and anybody else who helped to make this possible.  I have successfully installed Logos on Linux Mint 19.2 XFCE and Cinnamon versions (64-bit).  I didn't have any issues with either installation.

Blessings,

Scott

So see if you have wine-devel installed and if you do, uninstall it and install wine-devel 4.17~disco.

Then install winehq-devel.

I don't know if your running 32bit or 64bit, but here is the 64 bit file:

https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/disco/main/binary-amd64/wine-devel-amd64_4.17~disco_amd64.deb

Here is the 32bit file:

https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/disco/main/binary-i386/wine-devel-dev_4.17~disco_i386.deb

You can add that repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list file so you can download it easier but often when a specific version is required it's easier to install it directly from a file with dpkg.

Best wishes,

David

This page will help you.  Perhaps one of the "leaders" of this convocation of Logos friends with Linux could start their own PPA with what is needed.

Pasted here from this page: http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2019/09/wine-4-16-released-install-ubuntu-19-04/

The wine devel package requires libfaudio0 library which is not available in Ubuntu repositories.

As a workaround, run command to add the third-party PPA, which offers the packages for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.04.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cybermax-dexter/sdl2-backport

Best wishes,

David

I haven't gotten to the installing Logos part yet, but I did get wine to install by following the Debian stretch instructions for the devel release here: https://wiki.winehq.org/Debian