Linux version of Logos Bible Software

Care to share why it fails?

One advantage @Taylor and the Linux team have provided is to allow Logos to run on older computers.

I run daily on a 2006 Dell XPS M1330 SSD long since ready for the land fill.

A native Linux version may never be seen and over the years the Wine version has had problems.

The current project Oudedetia has come very far and may have problems in the future.

It seems many more people are involved and problems are solved in a timely manner.

It is not for everybody, may God bless the people for their work.

Your settings and layouts will stay… its low risk to try it. Rename your current wineprefix dir from eg. LogosBible10 to LogosBible10-backup. Use the script to install the latest version. If you like it delete the old one. If you don't have the disk space you can backup the old one onto an external drive. I do this a lot because I test the installer against new wine versions etc.

Thanks John. I tried using the script to install the latest version. Everything seemed to go fine—no errors or stalls—until I tried to run Logos. I get a new (to me) splash screen, and then a sign in window. I enter my credentials and… nothing…

I went back through the thread here to look for a solution, but didn't find anything. I have a new LogosBible10 folder (I renamed my old one as you suggested). The splash screen says v38 was installed. I have new shortcuts in my main menu. Anything else to try?

Thanks for the reply, John. I can easily wait a few days for a new version of the script—the version I'm using is working fine, and I've waited this long to even consider updating. ;-) I fully understand 'time constraints,' and will certainly respect yours. Thanks for continuing to work on this project!

Is this the old need to multi click the menu choice bug? Awesome!!! Congratulations

Yes that's the one! https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52380

I've been having some issues with this program, so I'm very happy to find such recent discussion on here!
I see some talk about a forthcoming new installer script, and perhaps that will solve my problem, but I'm unsure.

I had had Logos working perfectly on Ubuntu using Ou Dedetai, but I then had to install another program using Appimagelauncher, which had previously been uninstalled by Ou Dedetai. After finishing that, I tried opening Logos again to reach the prompt to uninstall Appimagelauncher again, but instead my screen went grey, telling me that an error occurred and that I needed to log out. This would happen consistently each time I tried, so I searched for all Logos-related files and deleted them, as well as all Appimagelauncher related files, and attempted a full reinstall. This also failed, though. I could get to the login screen, and then select what resources I wanted to download, but after that I got both a small box saying that the installation had failed, and the window with a progress bar for resource download. That progress bar made it to 60% on two different tries, but each time I ran into a fatal error.

If anyone understands what might be going on here, I'd appreciate advice! Or if this new install script could solve this, I wouldn't mind waiting.

Thank you for all the work that's gone into this!

Thanks for this! Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be working.

But maybe I didn't start off on the right foot? How do I proceed given that I have an existing install using oudedetai? Is it just a matter of deleting the install folder "LogosBible10" that it installed previously? That's what I did, but it doesn't seem to have been enough.

Details: I used the GUI option. 'Install' went seamlessly. When I click 'Run Logos' in the Ou Dedetai control panel, I get the Logos splash screen (v. 38.1), and then a Faithlife login screen. I enter my credentials and, nothing… There is an instance of Logos.exe in my 'System Monitor' (this didn't appear with the previous version of Ou Dedetai), but it shows 0% CPU use and 'N/A' for memory, disk read, disk write, etc. No change after at least 10 minutes. In fact, it's so 'inert' I can't even 'End / Kill Process' it.

If you could point me to where I could find an install log, I'd happily submit it.

I tested Logos v39.1 perhaps try using that. Regardless the log is under ~/.local/state/Faithlife-Community/oudedetai.log ~/.local/state/Faithlife-Community/wine.log ~/LogosBible10/data/wine64_bottle/drive_c/users/*/AppData/Faithlife/Logos/Logs/LogosLog.txt

To be clear: when is it stopping? Right after you put in your credentials or one screen later? Hitting continue after selecting how much of your library to download? If it's the latter can you check which wine version is in ~/LogosBible10/data/bin/wine- ? It should be 10.0-rc5. If not I'd like to see your log (to help other users), and you should be able remove ~/LogosBible10 and ~/.config/Faithlife-Community/oudedetai.json and ~/.cache/Faithlife-Community/network.json then try again. We understand gathering these files could be easier, created a github issue for further improvement in the future

I'm currently downloading and indexing! I removed oudedetai.json and network.json from the folders you mentioned in addition to /LogosBible10, and tried again. Unlike my earlier attempt (when I just removed /LogosBible10), this time it downloaded things, set renderings, configured fonts, etc., which all took a while. I don't recall these things happening when I tried this morning—it all went very quickly. So I think I'm over the hurdle! Thank you.

Re. To be clear: It was stopping right after I put in my credentials—there was no other Logos screen that appeared after that. I have oudedetai and wine logs from the failed attempt, along with a LogosError.log I found:

Program Version: 38.1 (38.1.0.0002)
Windows Version: 10.0.19043.0
.NET Framework Version: 8.0.10
Time: 2025-01-23 07:35:12 -08:00 (2025-01-23T15:35:12Z)
Installed memory: 15,395 MB
Install path: C:\users\*\AppData\Local\Logos\System\Logos.dll
Free install space: 130,409 MB
Temp path: C:\users\*\AppData\Local\TempFree temp space: 130,409 MB

Program Version: 38.1 (38.1.0.0002)
Time: 2025-01-23 07:35:12 -08:00 (2025-01-23T15:35:12Z)
SQLite Error 2058: os_win.c:49869: (33) winUnlockReadLock(C:\users\*\AppData\Local\Logos\Users\UserManager.db.create) - Lock violation.

Here's an issue I get only with Linux. Every major update, whether its a Logos update within Logos or I download the installer and update that way, deletes the vast majority of my library and then redownloads the entire library. Has anyone had anything similar?

Hopefully you can get Logos running - Tumbleweed was my most stable install when I was involved.

Yes that is why I posted about it. How was it resolved?

We had many updates with no data loss so presumed it fixed. I thought it was due to an update in wine. Can you tell me which wine version you were using and which version of Logos you updated from and to?