e-Sword

What works

Connecting and logging in to e-Sword server, downloading free and paid modules

Integrating downloaded modules into the user interface

Normal bible browsing, commentary reading, sync between bible and commentary window

Using Strong's numbers to jump into a dictionary definition

What does not

Application startup seemed a bit laggy, but may be due to VirtualBox or Wine.

Viewing a list of dictionary entries is extremely slow (I thought the program was hanging, prepare for a long wait).

Some Unicode characters might not display as expected, depending on the font used.

Workarounds

Avoid opening the full dictionary keyword list

What was not tested

I did not test personal notes and text export. 

Also did not test multimedia (sound output etc.)

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Unknown
• Driver: unknown

Additional Comments

OS used is Linux Mint 21.3 based on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy running in a VirtualBox (I gave this machine 16 GB of memory, but only one processor).

Wine Version used is 9.0 (which was not selectable above, even though as of today it is the latest stable version according to the website).

I was able to install e-Sword 13.0 in a fresh Mint/Ubuntu install using the following command line instructions:

# Enable 32bit architecture (not default in newer Ubuntus) 
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386  

# Get Wine repo key
sudo wget -O /etc/apt/keyrings/winehq-archive.key https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key    

# Add the Wine repo
sudo wget -NP /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/jammy/winehq-jammy.sources 

# Install Wine - in my case, this installed Wine 9.0
sudo apt update && sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable 

# Install Winetricks
sudo apt install winetricks 

# Make sure your winetricks is up-to-date (probably not necessary)  
sudo winetricks --self-update  

# Create a 32-bit prefix and install Windows Media Player 11 
# This will also install Wine-Mono
WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=${HOME}/e-sword winetricks -q wmp11  

# Install E-Sword in the new prefix: 
WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=${HOME}/e-sword wine /home/user/Downloads/e-Sword/e-sword_1300_setup.exe  

 # Run E-Sword (or use the launcher that gets created)
cd "${HOME}/e-sword/drive_c/Program Files/e-Sword" 
wine e-Sword.exe