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Bibletime Bible study tool

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BibleTime is a powerful cross platform Bible study tool. It uses the SWORD programming library to work with Bible texts, commentaries, dictionaries and books provided by the CrossWire Bible Society.

It is one of the best free Bible study tools that is available for linux.

The latest Lucid 5.2 makes it easy to install. Just open Quickpet>Sfs Get and install Bibletime_Lucid.

Lighthouse Pup also has Bibletime, go here and download Bibletime-2.7.2b.sfs, place it in /mnt/home and select it with the bootmanager.

Note: There is a later version, Bibletime-2.8 available, however, there is a bug that prevents it from using all available sword modules. I recommend that only Bibletime-2.7.2 be used with puppy for the present.

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Re: Bibletime Bible study tool

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Jim1911 wrote:The latest Lucid 5.2 makes it easy to install. Just open Quickpet>Sfs Get and install Bibletime_Lucid.
Hello Jim,
thank you very much. The installation worked very well under Lucid 5.2.

Please note the screenshot with the WLC module (Hebrew). How do I resolve these squares?

Many greetings.
Ben
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#3 Post by eztuxer »

Thanks for this great .pet !

I like and use it a lot.

BUT : It never fails, as soon as installed on any 520 based puplet, Mplayer ceases to work ... :-(

Please HELP !
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#4 Post by Jim1911 »

Hi, Sorry about late reply, but I've not had access to my desktop computer for about a month.

@Ben, I have no ideas concerning your problem, other than trying another installation and downloading the problem module again. I have had a similar problem that was corrected by a new installation and re-downloading the modules.

@eztuxer, I cannot duplicate your problem, it doesn't appear to be related to Bibletime. It's possibly due to another program that you have installed. Have you tried Bibletime as the first program to be installed to your Lucid installation? Incidently, are you using a full hd installation of Lucid, otherwise, you are not using a Lucid .pet file? Quickpet only has an sfs version of Bibletime.

Regards,
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#5 Post by eztuxer »

Hi Jim,

Thanks for your reply.
I'm using the bibletime.pet, not the .sfs although I've tried both before.
I have both an HDD install on puppy studio (3.3, 520 based), and puppy 520, plus an USB stick install of puppy 5.2.5 and on that one I installed bibletime.pet as first additional software to narrow down the investigation.
In the meantime, I have added xcine and VLC players as a work around, but I use jubler subtitle editor with built in player that use inbeded mplayer.
So I use 2 different puppies, one with jubler, and one with bible time...
I'll look around if I could redefine another player for jubler, but this might involve coding way beyond my learning curve position at this moment.

http://jubler.org/

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#6 Post by eztuxer »

Come to think of it: Could this be Java related ? I have the jre-1.6.0.22.pet installed for jubler.
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#7 Post by Jim1911 »

Hi eztuxer,

I'm not aware of any .pet, developed for use by Lucid, other than the one that 01micko generates for Lucid using his SFS grabber.

I still suspect that some other program is causing your sound problem. I don't believe that java is the problem since I also use it without problem. Possible, the java Bible applications, Alkitab or BibleDesktop, may suit your needs as an alternative to Bibletime. They use the same opensource Crosswire Sword resources that are used by Bibletime. You'll find a thread on both of these in the Howto section.

Regards,
Jim
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Fonts or Font parts not installed / supported ?

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Jim1911 wrote:Hi, Sorry about late reply, but I've not had access to my desktop computer for about a month.
No problem. I'm glad anyway, that you made it back. BibleTime is quite an important tool for me :) . Thank you.
Jim1911 wrote:@Ben, I have no ideas concerning your problem, other than trying another installation and downloading the problem module again. I have had a similar problem that was corrected by a new installation and re-downloading the modules.
That doesn't seem to work. It happens with several modules, as if certain fonts are not recognized / displayed. Same problem with module Syriac Vocalized Peshittah. Is there a central place, where fonts need to be installed? :?:
Many greetings,
Ben:)

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#9 Post by Jim1911 »

Hi Ben,

Sorry, that's above my skill level. Consider starting a new thread concerning the font issue, possibly ttuuxxx or someone may have ideas on how to solve it.

Have you tried theWord or e-Sword using Wine, maybe they don't have the font issue, both are fine programs and of course there are some good java applications, Alkitab and BibleDesktop.

Regards,
Jim
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Will try your suggestions later

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Jim1911 wrote:...Consider starting a new thread concerning the font issue ... Have you tried theWord or e-Sword using Wine, maybe they don't have the font issue, both are fine programs and of course there are some good java applications, Alkitab and BibleDesktop.
Hello Jim,
that is a good idea. Thank you for your efforts anyway. Ok, first, I'll try to dig into threads about installing / using Wine, when I get the time. It was just a good thing to have the Bible Time in the package manager next to other usefull programms for easy install.
Cheers,
Ben:)

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#11 Post by Jim1911 »

Hi Ben,

Check these threads for assistance e-Sword installation and theWord.

Regards,
Jim
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installation assistance

#12 Post by Ben »

Hello Jim,
thank you for the links. Have to check them later. Would have been nice to not having to install wine. Maybe I'll try Lighthouse instead of lucid and see, how the Hebrew or Syriac font show up there in BibleTime.
Thankful
Ben:)

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#13 Post by joe0855 »

Hey Jim1911,

Bibletime worked on my copy of Puppy 5.2.5. However I just bought a new laptop that did not like 5.2.5 or 5.2.8 for that matter (HW driver support issues). Long story short, I'm running Fatdog64 which works well with my new laptop. However when I install the Bibletime SFS or pet (tried Bibletime_lucid-2.7.2a.sfs, Bibletime-2.7.2-Lucid.pet), I am missing many libs. I started adding the missing libs until replacing 'libstdc++.so.6' caused my OS to no longer boot up properly. Have your ever tried Bibletime on Fatdog64? Would you suggest a better way to approach this method? Not familiar with compliling, but willing. Thanks!

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joe0855 wrote:Hey Jim1911,

Bibletime worked on my copy of Puppy 5.2.5. However I just bought a new laptop that did not like 5.2.5 or 5.2.8 for that matter (HW driver support issues). Long story short, I'm running Fatdog64 which works well with my new laptop. However when I install the Bibletime SFS or pet (tried Bibletime_lucid-2.7.2a.sfs, Bibletime-2.7.2-Lucid.pet), I am missing many libs. I started adding the missing libs until replacing 'libstdc++.so.6' caused my OS to no longer boot up properly. Have your ever tried Bibletime on Fatdog64? Would you suggest a better way to approach this method? Not familiar with compliling, but willing. Thanks!
Hi Joe,

I've not been successful installing Bibletime to Fatdog. I don't know if there is a 64-bit version for you to try compiling. I recommend that you consider theWord, a Windows program which IMHO is the best free Bible software available. With Fatdog, I personally use Windows versions of BibleAnalyzer, eSword, and theWord. The only reason I keep eSword is that is has a purchased NASB version which is one of my favorites.

Regards,
Jim
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Re: Fonts or Font parts not installed / supported ?

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Ben wrote:
Jim1911 wrote:Hi, Sorry about late reply, but I've not had access to my desktop computer for about a month.
No problem. I'm glad anyway, that you made it back. BibleTime is quite an important tool for me :) . Thank you.
Jim1911 wrote:@Ben, I have no ideas concerning your problem, other than trying another installation and downloading the problem module again. I have had a similar problem that was corrected by a new installation and re-downloading the modules.
That doesn't seem to work. It happens with several modules, as if certain fonts are not recognized / displayed. Same problem with module Syriac Vocalized Peshittah. Is there a central place, where fonts need to be installed? :?:
Many greetings,
Ben:)
Hi Ben & Jim,

Here is a font with fixed width, should render Hebrew, too. I think

Hope this helps

Cheers

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#16 Post by joe0855 »

Jim1911 wrote:Hi Joe,

I've not been successful installing Bibletime to Fatdog. I don't know if there is a 64-bit version for you to try compiling. I recommend that you consider theWord, a Windows program which IMHO is the best free Bible software available. With Fatdog, I personally use Windows versions of BibleAnalyzer, eSword, and theWord. The only reason I keep eSword is that is has a purchased NASB version which is one of my favorites.

Regards,
Jim
Hey Jim,

I downloaded installed 'The Word' and the 'ESV' module per your instructions, as well as the pet that you created. Rock solid! Thank you very much! God bless!

Regards,
Joe

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#17 Post by kirk »

I've uploaded a pet for Bibletime-2.8.1 to the Fatdog64 repo. It has a couple of bug fixes patched in. It requires the qt4, clucene, and sword packages install. Please note the the qt4 package requires a reboot. Also, I haven't tested this much.

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kirk wrote:I've uploaded a pet for Bibletime-2.8.1 to the Fatdog64 repo. It has a couple of bug fixes patched in. It requires the qt4, clucene, and sword packages install. Please note the the qt4 package requires a reboot. Also, I haven't tested this much.
Hi Kirk,

Thank you for providing us Bibletime 2,8.1 for Fatdog 64. It's working great and provides another fine tool for sharing and studying God's word.

Thanks again,
Jim

@all Kirk's pet packages are here.
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#19 Post by joe0855 »

Thanks Kirk! Just installed the four pets:
sword-092111
qt4-4.6.1
clucene-0.9.21b
bibletime-2.8.1

BibleTime does open up. However when I click on the 'Install Works' button and the 'Bookshelf Manager' windows pops open, I am not able to remotely connect to the ftp.crosswire.org site to automatically download texts. However I manually copied the necessary modules and *.conf files and I've got what I need.

I'm really getting spoiled with the awesome support for Fatdog64, keep up the good work!

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#20 Post by Jim1911 »

Hi Kirk

I have the same problem that joe0855 reported. Fatdog's Bibletime is working great except for the "Bookshelf Manager" which cannot connect to remote sites to download resources.

Although, if a user has access to Sword files the necessary modules and *.conf files can be copied over or linked and the program works fine. It still provides another fine tool for sharing and studying God's word.

In my case I did not try the "Bookshelf Manager" until I saw joe0855's problem report. I keep a separate Sword directory in /mnt/home and have a relative link to /mnt/home/Sword in /usr/share. This allows the Sword modules to be accessed by other pups and there is no need to download the modules multiple times since they may be linked or copied as needed.

Thanks again for this fine resource,
Jim

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