Ryan Gustason’s Blog

Here is a quick tutorial to install e-Sword on Ubuntu Linux. e-Sword is one of the best bible study software out there, and the only reason I stayed with Windows as long as I did. It will be interesting to see if Rick Meyers will port it to a native linux program. I believe he is trying to make a web based version of e-Sword, so his energies may be tied up with that. Until then, follow these instructions to get e-Sword running in Ubuntu using Wine. Note: I tested this with Xubuntu 8.04 and Wine version 1.0

First, install wine using a command line interface:

1. go to: Applications>System>Add/Remove…

2. Click on System on the left hand pane. In the right hand pane, scroll down until you find Synaptic Package Manager. Check it, click apply changes. If it asks for your password, enter it and click O.K. This step will install Synaptic which will be used in a later step.

3. Once Synaptic is installed (You should see it in Applications>System) Go to: Applications>Accessories>Terminal

4. In the terminal, past in the following and press enter (This will update Synaptic’s lists for Wine which is a Windows Emulator needed for running e-Sword): sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list

5. Next paste: sudo apt-get update

6. Close the terminal and go to: Applications>System>Synaptic Package Manager

7. In the search box on the top of Synaptic, type in Wine and click search. In the list that displays, scroll down until you find wine. Check it. You may get a pop up asking you to install dependencies that Wine needs. Click mark and continue to install Wine. Click Apply at the top, and when a pop up windows comes up, click Apply again. Wait for the program to install.

8. Go to www.e-sword.net and download the latest version of e-Sword.

9. When the download pop-up window comes up, choose to open (run) the program using Wine. Wait for it to download the e-Sword installer. It should automatically continue with the e-Sword installation wizard.

10. Download msls31.dll from Dlldump.com.

11. Download Riched20.dll from Dlldump.com.

12. Copy the downloaded dll’s into the e-Sword directory by doing the following steps:

a. Places>Ryan (Change Ryan with your home directory)

b. Click on the view menu and check “Show Hidden Files”

c. Double Click .wine

d. Double click Drive_C

e. Double Click Program Files

f. Double Click E-Sword

g. Copy the two downloaded dll files into this directory

13. go to: Applications>Wine>Configure Wine

14. Click on the Libraries Tab, and in the “New override for Library” drop down box, fine Riched20, click add, apply, and ok. Close out of Configure Wine.

15. go to: Applications>Other>E-Sword to run E-sword. Everything should work fine, including the Strong’s tool-tips pop-ups. Enjoy!

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Palm Bible+

One of the best readers for the Palm platform. This software has a lot of free resources, especially on the chan website. Google the chan to find it. The most current version is 3.3.31 Beta, but it really is a stable platform. The only thing it lacks in functionality in my opinion is hyper-linked Strong’s concordance numbers to Greek and Hebrew definitions. www.e-sword.net makes a bible reader for the Pocket PC platform which does include this functionality.

Blogging Tips - ScribeFire: Fire up your blogging

An interesting page describing ScribeFire. I have started using it for my blogging. I liked the bit about adding links to your blogs. It is amazing to me how many people blog and don’t do this simple step. It adds a lot of dimension to your writing as well as giving credit for ideas that were not your original ideas. Plagiary on the world wide web is rampant and it is not hard to see why. The web is so accessible and so vast in scope that finding where someone has copied something is virtually impossible.

Now while I’m going to try to keep this blog focused on my ministry efforts, and Jesus Christ, I will from time to time blog on other subjects of interest to me such as trucks and computers. I find the Linux community fascinating as well. The whole concept of open source is awesome! I’ll write more on this on a later post!

God bless!

Go by and visit www.ct43.com to learn more. The target cities for Connecticut Impact 43 is:

Norwalk: 83000

Greenwich: 63000

Fairfield: 58000

Shelton: 39000

Trumbull: 36000

Meriden: 59000

Hamden: 59000

Norwich 37000

West Hartford 64000

Newington 31000

The above listed cities, shown with their respective populations, are the focus cities for Connecticut Impact 43!

Well, as most of you know, I don’t have a girl, but some of you do I’m sure. Here is an interesting link my wife asked if I’d pass it along, http://www.todayschristiangirl.com/ Has some interesting resources on it. Check it out.