Logos Bible Software (Verbum)

What works

Home Screen is working

Printing works

Indexing can be hit or miss (See Workaround list)

Video can work with major graphics glitches (See Workaround list)

What does not

Read Aloud

Indexing can be an issue (See workaround list)

Video (unless willing to deal with graphics glitches)

At times updating the application will delete all downloaded resources (keep an updated backup readily available)

Workarounds

For indexer - setting the indexer to Windows 7 allows completion.

For Video - changing the graphics from gdi to opengl allows video to play - BUT creates a nasty graphical glitch bug with black boxes covering portion of the application.

In relation to the deletion of resources upon update - I have found that downloading the updated Logos Setup executable is much more successful in keeping the downloaded resources. (Not 100%, but better than the in app update)

What was not tested

Most everything tested, not all new Features have been tested, as I've yet to upgrade to a Full Feature Set for Logos 9

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Intel
• Driver: open source

Additional Comments

Logos Bible Software Version 9.0.0.0181 is the tested version of the application.

Please communicate with us on telegram. Support and 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.

The app is a bit like kindle in so much as the engine is free but the resources cost so there is a free download. Unlike kindle it has many advanced research features and books link together etc. The main app is free but there are paid features, resources and subscriptions. To use the app you need a free account https://www.logos.com/product/194909/logos-9-basic. It uses a downloader app which doesn't work with wine. The actual msi link is https://downloads.logoscdn.com... (change version number for latest version).

If you are looking to get Logos working on Linux there are 2 easy choices, a legacy option and manual instructions below:

1. Installation script for 64bit Logos 9 use the bash install script with nice gui:
   Usually it is necessary to install some dependancies with your distros package manager: e.g. sudo apt install samba (sometimes contains winbind), winbind, cabextract, libjpeg8
   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 separate wine version from system for longer term stability details here: https://docs.google.com/docume...
3. **Legacy wasta packages support offline installation 32bit Logos 8 see the google doc guide
4. Manually install wine and configure everything yourself
   
   1. Install wine 7 or newer
      
   2. winetricks corefonts
   3. winetricks settings fontsmooth=rgb
   4. winetricks dotnet48 (might need to run using wine 5.11 https://bugs.winehq.org/show_b...
   5. winetricks settings renderer=gdi (you might need to set the reg key manually
   6. Install the Logos.msi download but don't run it.
   7. wine64 reg add "HKCU\\Software\\Wine\\AppDefaults\\LogosIndexer.exe" /v Version /t REG_SZ /d vista /f
   8. Run Logos

Manual instructions for 32bit - Please use 64bit where possible because 32bit is deprecated by faithlife.

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