Logos Bible Software (Verbum)

What works

Versions: Logos version 9.9.0.0004. Wine 6.19 Staging

Tested (i.e. completed a task using): (*problems)
Basic Features
   Main Toolbar (panels, options, settings, shortcuts): Works
   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: Crash
*      Read Aloud with Audio: Can't see option
*     Audiobooks: Crash on play
*     Videos: Crash on Opening
      New tab panel: Works
   Downloading and indexing new resources: Works
   Factbook: Works
   Search Panel (inc each type of search): Works
*  Printing: Opens, but clicking Print or Printer Properties does nothing
   Draw on Screen: Works
*   Updating - In app update from previous version: (usually deletes user data)
   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: Was able to successfully create a new Bibliography from Open resources 
   Canvas: Works
?  Handout: No option Available
  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
   Canvas: As Above
   Highlighting: Works
   Bible Sense Lexicon: Works
   Timeline: Works
*  Faithlife Assistant: Crash on Click
   Media (As in Designing Media tool): Works
   Search: As above
   Copy Bible Verse: Works
   Favourites: Works
   
Guides
   Passage Guide: Works
   Exegetical Guide: Works
   Audio Pronunciations

   Word Study: Works
   Theology Guide: Works
   Topic Guide: Works
   Counseling Guide: Works
   Sermon Starter Guide: Works
   Workflows: Works

What does not

See Items above with asterisk

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

Logos Indexer is able to complete only if the logosindexer.exe is set to Vista in Winecfg - any other setting leads to a crash, as the Indexer never gets past the Autocomplete portion of its function.

What was not tested

Proclaim connectivity

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Intel
• Driver: unknown

Additional Comments

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

• Install wine 6 or newer
• winetricks corefonts
• winetricks settings fontsmooth=rgb
• winetricks dotnet48
• winetricks settings renderer=gdi (you might need to set the reg key manually)
• Install the Logos.msi download but don't run it.
• wine64 reg add "HKCU\\Software\\Wine\\AppDefaults\\LogosIndexer.exe" /v Version /t REG_SZ /d vista /f
• Run Logos

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