Must-have apps won't run

[Bob Nielsen]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 07:32:40AM -0300, Steve Haines wrote:
> Ubuntu would be a perfect OS for national pastors and workers in Paraguay and 
> other South American countries, if either Bibletime or Gnomesword would run.
> 
> Bibletime shows up in universe, which is odd. It is a KDE frontend for "The 
> Sword Project's" Bible concordance and database. The Gnome frontend for the 
> same database is Gnomesword. It is not in universe or multiverse, but can be 
> downloaded with its dependencies from Debian testing.
> 
> The problem: I've installed both Bibletime and Gnomesword with Synaptic, and 
> everything seems okay; all dependencies met. But both programs fail with the 
> error "segmentation fault." This is a major disappointment for me. Ubuntu in 
> Spanish would otherwise be perfect to use with donated older PC's to give to 
> national co-workers.
> 
> Has anyone gotten either Bibletime or Gnomesword to run in Ubuntu? I'm using 
> Warty. (The two programs run in Libranet 2.8.1). --Steve, in rural Paraguay.

I recently started using ubunto and hadn't gotten around to installing
either of these before now, but just gave it a try and found that
Gnomesword and its dependencies are available in Hoary (universe).  It
appears to work fine for me.  I'll try adding some modules later.

Bob