Logos Bible Software

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:

• GPU: Nvidia
• Driver: open source

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.

If you are looking to get Logos working on linux there are 2 easy choices:

wasta packages support offline installation see the google doc guide

Bash install script with nice gui (this is the recommended method with the option to use an 'ideal' version of wine bundled into an appImage, 64bit seems good with this appImage): ferion11 installer on github

Manual instructions

These instructions are here for reference for those who are participating in the painfully laborious process of testing new versions or new systems. 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-staging (5.7 known to work)
sudo apt-get install wine-staging winetricks winbind patch cabextract

Set up 32 bit wine bottle (note people have great problems indexing with 64bit):
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 or x64: 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-x86.msi

run Logos
WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine-logos/ wine $HOME/.wine-logos/drive_c/users/$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)

Try running the indexer directly so that error messages are easier to keep and share.

WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine-logos/ wine c\:'/users/$USER/Local Settings/Application Data/Logos/System/LogosIndexer.exe'

The ferion11 script has arguments that modify the registry to enable/disable Logos own verbose logging which can be useful for any troubleshooting.

    "logsOn")
        echo "======= enable LogosBible logging only: ======="
        ${WINE_EXE} reg add "HKCU\\\\Software\\\\Logos4\\\\Logging" /v Enabled /t REG_DWORD /d 0001 /f
        wineserver -w
        echo "======= enable LogosBible logging done! ======="
        exit 0
        ;;
    "logsOff")
        echo "======= disable LogosBible logging only: ======="
        ${WINE_EXE} reg add "HKCU\\\\Software\\\\Logos4\\\\Logging" /v Enabled /t REG_DWORD /d 0000 /f
        wineserver -w
        echo "======= disable LogosBible logging done! ======="
        exit 0
        ;;