Logos Bible Software is a digital library application designed for electronic Bible study. In addition to basic eBook functionality, it includes extensive resource linking, note-taking functionality, and linguistic analysis for study of the Bible both in translation and in its original languages. It is developed by Faithlife Corporation. Logos Bible resource catalog includes more than 43,000 titles related to the Bible from 200 publishers, including Baker, Bantam, Catholic University of America Press, Eerdmans, Harvest House, Merriam Webster, Moody Press, Oxford University Press, Thomas Nelson, Tyndale House, and Zondervan. Logos also recently published its own Lexham Bible Reference series, featuring new scholarship on the original Biblical languages. (edited from Wikipedia)
Application Details:
| Version: | 8 |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | http://www.logos.com |
| Votes: | Marked as obsolete |
| Latest Rating: | Silver |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 5.20-staging |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Everything until the login screen was fine.
The UI is a bit buggy at rendering but this is the same as the report for Ubuntu on "Jul 09 2020" by Frank Sauer
I did not get further than trying to log in.
What does not
Logos cannot connect to the network and therefore login cannot take place.
There is possibly a problem with winbind and wine on Arch Linux
Workarounds
This is what I tried to fix the problem (it DIDN'T work):
Default Samba config in /etc/samba/smb.conf
enabled and started nmb.service
enabled and started winbind.service
What was not tested
Everything after the login screen.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
It looks very promising but the Network is obviously a big obsticle.
There is maybe a possibility of using a proxy by setting it on the login screen but even if I do wine ping 1.1.1.1, it doesn't resolve so I'm not sure.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy" (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Nov 01 2020 | 5.20-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Silver | Frank Sauer | |
| Show | Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal" (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Sep 29 2020 | 5.18 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Silver | John Goodman | |
| Show | Fedora 32, 64-bit. | Sep 28 2020 | 5.17-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Silver | Loye W. Young, OP, JD | |
| Show | Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy" (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Aug 31 2020 | 5.16 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Silver | John Goodman | |
| Current | Arch Linux x86_64 | Aug 08 2020 | 5.13-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Garbage | Stubbs |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 47837 | Logos 8 Bible Software (.Net 4.7.2 app) has graphics glitches | RESOLVED | NOTOURBUG | View |
| 47905 | Logos 8 Bible Software (.NET 4.7 app) fails to play media (crashes in MF/EVR) | NEW | View | |
| 47922 | Logos 8/9 Bible Software (.NET 4.7 app) crashes when using 'Read Aloud / System Narrator' on selected passage | NEW | View | |
| 49767 | Logos 8 Bible Software (.Net 4.7 app): All existing resources are deleted during app update | NEEDINFO | View | |
| 49919 | Logos 8 Bible Software crashes when entering text in passage guide search field | NEW | View | |
| 49920 | wine: could not load ntdll.so, and more | RESOLVED | NOTOURBUG | View |
| 50227 | Logos 8.x - 9.x Bible Software (.Net 4.7.2 app) indexer crashes | NEW | View |
Users are recommended to use wine 6.0.1 stable.
If you are looking to get Logos working on linux there are 2 easy choices:
1) Installation script for 64bit Logos 9 use the bash install script with nice gui:
https://github.com/ferion11/LogosLinuxInstaller/releases
2) Packages for Ubuntu are available from wasta (now updated to Logos 9) these are considered stable and can be used for offline installation. Also provides a seperate wine version from system for longer term stability details here: https://docs.google.com/docume...
**Legacy wasta packages support offline installation 32bit Logos 8 see the google doc guide
3) Manual
Manual instructions for 32bit - Please use 64bit where possible because 32bit is deprecated by faithlife.
These instructions are here for reference for those who are participating in the painfully laborious process of testing new versions or new systems please refer to ferion11 installer instead for 64bit. If that is you then good luck and please communicate with us on telegram. Telegram shared files on the Running Logos Bible Software on Linux group found at - https://t.me/linux_logos If you just want it to work please use wasta or the ferion11 script as many hours have been spent to make those as painless and easy as possible - enjoy.
Note the software requires a user and password. A basic account is free from logos.com
enable multi-arch on an amd64 system:
dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
Download and install the winehq repository key:
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
sudo apt-key add winehq.key
Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to add wine repos with: for other versions see: https://wiki.winehq.org/Download
Ubuntu (change focal according to the version you have installed)
sudo add-apt-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ focal main'
sudo apt-get update
Choose wine (6.4 devel known to work)
sudo apt-get install wine-staging winetricks winbind patch cabextract
Set up 64 or 32 bit wine bottle:
env WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine-logos sh winetricks arch=32 prefix=$HOME/ .wine-logos -q dotnet48 corefonts fontsmooth=rgb drr=gdi win7
click "Cancel" to avoid installation of Mono and Gecko neither are needed. (may take 30mins to finish even on a fast machine with ssd)
drr=gdi has been buggy in winetricks due to a change in the way the reg key was changed. Newer versions of winetricks should do it correctly but if you get graphical glitches (more likely on older hardware) then you can edit the registry accordingly.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D]
"DirectDrawRenderer"="gdi"
"renderer"="gdi"
run Logos x32 download from https://downloads.logoscdn.com/LBS8/Installer/8.16.0.0002/Logos-x86.msi (or x64) the latest version number can be found from the forum at community.faithlife.com/forums
WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine-logos/ msiexec /i $HOME/Downloads/Logos-x64.msi
run Logos
WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine-logos/ wine64 $HOME/.wine-logos/drive_c/users/$USER/Local\ Settings/Application\ Data/Logos/Logos.exe
"Download your Logos Library" - it is recommended to choose minimal install and download the rest later.
"Downloading resources" (could take hrs)
"Preparing Library" (probs a few mins)
"Indexing" (could take a couple of hours depending on library size and hardware)
To enable/disable Logos own verbose logging which can be useful for any troubleshooting:
On: wine64 reg add "HKCU\\\\Software\\\\Logos4\\\\Logging" /v Enabled /t REG_DWORD /d 0001 /f
Off: wine64 reg add "HKCU\\\\Software\\\\Logos4\\\\Logging" /v Enabled /t REG_DWORD /d 0000 /f
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by Steve on Saturday May 16th 2020, 23:14
Only a couple more apps to migrate now, and I will be able to wean myself off Windows as my primary OS.
Tried running on Debian 10 but no joy either with synaptic or command line install. (May have been a messy install though chasing dependencies out of order).
First install on Ubuntu (18.xx) also failed to complete without errors. Again possibly messed up with various attempts graphically and at command line.
This current install was done immediately after the initial login. I had chosen full instal with all updates etc.
The experience with Ubuntu was seamless and quick considering the reasonably large Logos file I had to import, >3.5Gb
Daniel's script ran flawlessly.
Amazing! Great Effort.
God Bless,
Cheers Steve
by thiago s f carvalho on Saturday May 2nd 2020, 10:45
thiagoserra.github.io/ (on Linux section).
Meus amigos brasileiros!
Escrevi um tutorial simples de como instalar o Logos 8 usando o script do Daniel.
Instruções disponíveis em:
thiagoserra.github.io/
Que Deus nos abençoe.
by Daniel Ribeiro da Silva on Saturday December 28th 2019, 2:18
by Adam on Wednesday May 6th 2020, 12:32
by Daniel Ribeiro da Silva on Thursday December 26th 2019, 14:55
by Jesse Steele on Wednesday December 25th 2019, 9:29
by John Goodman on Wednesday December 25th 2019, 17:16
by Nick Andrewes on Saturday May 2nd 2020, 10:31
Well, to clarify, indexing hung a couple of times, but got there after a couple of restarts. This may or may not be normal behaviour in windows. I did not need to set to winxp for indexing.
For me, it does not prompt to update the operating system, and successfully downloaded Logos updates and installs them.
I do still get black screens, which draw correctly when I resize or move the window.