Easy way to install e-Sword through wine

[Eberhard Roloff]

steven vollom wrote:
> (Trim)
>> Nope, you have to upgrade wine to at least 1.1.7. I have tested it
>> with wine 1.1.23. Go to this page and download wine 1.1.23 for your
>> distribution:
>>
>> http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/archive/index.html
>>
>> If you are running jaunty i386, then this is the correct package to
>> install:
>>
>> http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/archive/ubuntu/jaunty/wine_1.1.23~winehq0~u
>> buntu~9.04-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
>>
>> Wine 1.0.1 will fail to install e-Sword properly (install at a wrong
>> directory).
>>
>> DK
> Hello David,
> 
> I just reinstalled and am at the point where you said to double click on the 
> installer.  I did, and nothing happens.  But I did extract from ark and put 
> the installer on the desktop and make sure it is executable.  
> 
> The most unusual thing happened when I installed.  When I opened the computer, 
> all my settings remained, even the work that had been done with Wine and e-
> Sword.  My email program was in tact with all saved emails where they were.  
> This has never happened before.  I have always had to install everything over 
> and configure everything.  I have experienced a miracle from GOD before, but I 
> am not sure whether this is from HIM, or has kubuntu advanced to this state.  
> Or is the fact that all of my partitions are separate from the boot partition 
> the reason everything is the way it was?  And even that has improved.  When I 
> partitioned originally, there was a tiny portion of drive that was not 
> accounted for.  I did nothing special for it, so the computer created a 
> partition of something under a KiB and showed it on the drive widget as a 
> fully filled KiB partition.  It no longer shows on the widget.  I am shocked 
> and pleased in equal proportion.
> 
> Well, I still cannot click on the e-Sword icon and have it open.  Do you think 
> you might be able to help me figure it out?  I am so anxious to have it working 
> again.  I feel like a kid at Christmas time.
> 
> Steven
> 
1. go where you stored the extracted installer:
open konsole
cd Desktop/

2. execute the installer
./e-Sword_installer

3. from the menu choose to install e-sword

Then, please install e-sword, please

4. you are done, or

5.you will execute the installer, once again and additionally add more 
components from the menue.

6. you are done

kind regards
Eberhard

kind regards
Eberhard