Logos Bible Software (Verbum)

What works

What works

Versions: Logos Version 10.0.0.0215 - Wine 7.18 Staging
Tested (i.e. completed a task using): (*problems)

Basic Features
* Main Toolbar (panels, options, settings, shortcuts): Works, but after using a selection like Docs – the Toolbar will “blink” when trying to access it again (Workaround - uncheck the Window Manager related option on the Graphics tab of Winecfg or a double click of the Toolbar option will allow the Menu to be visible)
Keyboard Shortcuts & Navigation: Works
About Logos Panel: Works
Home screen (inc clicking layouts and links): Works
Library panel: Works   
Opening and closing resources
Books: Works
*Read Aloud with System Narrator: Opens, clicking play results in the feature rapidly scrolling to the end of the resource without any audio. (Using David Heath as Narrator in the ESV causes a crash)
*Audiobooks: Open, clicking Play allows the player to advance at normal speed – No Audio
*Videos: Open, but clicking Play allows the player to advance at normal speed – No Audio No Video
New tab panel: Works
Downloading and Indexing new resources: Works (Speed of Process has greatly improved)
Factbook: Works
Search Panel (inc each type of search): Works
*Printing: Opens, but clicking Print only works with Win 7. Win 10 allows Print to be clicked, but nothing happens.
Draw on Screen: Works
*Updating - In app update from previous version: (usually deletes user data) Only works on Win 10
History: Works
Themes (Light and Dark Mode): Works

Docs
Notebook: Works
Passage List: Works
Reading Plan: Works
Sermon: Works (Proclaim integration not tested)
Collections: Works
Visual Filter: Works
Wordlist: Works
Bibliography: Works
Canvas: Works
Clippings: Works
Morph Query Doc: Works
Prayer List: Works
Sentence Diagram: Works
Syntax Search: Works
Word Find Puzzle: Works

Tools
Information Panel: Works
Cited By: Works
Factbook: Works
Notes: Works
Text Comparison: Works
Sermon Manager: Works
Atlas: Works
Highlighting: Works
Bible Sense Lexicon: Works
Timeline: Works
Faithlife Assistant: Works
*Media (As in Designing Media tool): Works partially – Media files are there, but the Previews are Broken
Copy Bible Verse: Works
Favorites: Works
Sermon Builder: Works
Charts: Works
Guide Editor: Works
Passage Analysis: Works
Advanced Timeline: Works
Bible Browser: Works
Concordance: Works
Courses: Works
Reading Lists: Works

Guides
Passage Guide: Works
Exegetical Guide: Works
Audio Pronunciations: Works
Word Study: Works
Theology Guide: Works
Topic Guide: Works
Counseling Guide: Works
Sermon Starter Guide: Works
Workflows: Works

What does not
See items with asterisk above

Workarounds
The work around DLL overrides mentioned in the comments of the Video issues for Logos 8 by Louis Lenders does prevent the crash on opening of Video Resources - it does not allow video to play (with or without Media Foundation installed via winetricks)
Installing sapi via winetricks eliminates some Read Aloud crashes, but does not play audio - only allows the player to appear in the Logos Task Bar
Default must be set to Win 7 for Printing to work
What was not tested
Proclaim Integration

Hardware tested
Graphics:
GPU: Intel

Driver: unknown

Additional Comments
I have noticed that intermittently, Logos 10 will report that I have varying sizes of updates available. I’ve seen the notifications range from a couple hundred MB all the way to 10 GB – a close and reopen of Logos usually cleared it, on occasion it took a few times closing and opening. It appears to be related to Resources that are downloaded, not being found by Logos – (Possibly related to a Library Catalog issue…?)

What does not

See Write Up

Workarounds

See Write Up

What was not tested

See Write Up

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Intel
• Driver: unknown

Additional Comments

See Write Up

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