Logos Bible Software (Verbum)

What works

Logos version 9.6.0.0024. Wine 6.14 staging

Tested (i.e. completed a task using): 

• Home screen
• Opening and closing resources
• Library panel
• Notes panel
• Search Panel
• Info Panel
• Factbook
• Printing to cups PDF driver.
• Bible Search
• Sermon Editor
• Passage Guide
• Exegetical Guide
• Audio Pronunciations

What does not

Media didn't play either audiobook or video course. Both caused a crash.

Speech / Read aloud causes a crash.

Notes panel is slow to load.

Workarounds

Media can be played via the webapp.

Document exports add flexibility for printing.

Browser plugins add speech to web app.

What was not tested

This app has so many features it isn't possible to test all.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Nvidia
• Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

This was a fresh install using the ferion script.

*** wine 6.9+ has a regression which causes crashes https://bugs.winehq.org/show_b...

Users are recommended to use wine 6.0.1 stable or 6.3 devel.

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 (might need to run using wine 5.11 https://bugs.winehq.org/show_b...)
• 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