Bibletime 2.11 - can't install any works

[ngoonee]

In the Bookshelf Manager, after doing a 'get list', whichever of the sources I select, when I click 'next' I don't see any languages listed. Am I doing something wrong?

Running on Linux.

[gholmlund]

On the "Choose Remote Libraries" path you should see 8 libraries. Then you are choosing 1 or more libraries and selecting "next"? And then you don't see any languages?

[ngoonee]

Yes exactly. I've chosen only Crosswire as well as all of them, and no languages are shown.

Is there any debug mode I could run to see what it's trying to do?

[gholmlund]

There is not a debug mode related to the bookshelf. What platform is this on?
My best guess is there is a bad file or wrong permissions in your sword directory. This is $HOME/.sword in Linux. You could try renaming or removing this directory and trying again.

[ngoonee]

I've definitely removed and recreated the directory multiple times while trying to debug this. Permissions are fairly standard for my HOME, as far as I can see.

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[gholmlund]

Another suggestion. Using a text editor, delete a line in the $HOME/.bibletime/bibletimerc file. Remove the line that begins with "BookshelfWizard\lastUpdate". This will force the update of your remote libraries.

[ngoonee]

That worked, thanks. What did I do wrong prior to this?

[gholmlund]

That entry causes BibleTime to automatically update remote libraries no more often than once per week. Deleting $HOME/.sword removes the remote library information and that entry prevents it from auto updating. This is really a deficiency in BibleTime. We either need a manual refresh button or a better algorithm to know when to auto update the remote libraries.

[jaakristioja]

If a manual refresh button requires no new translatable strings, it might be possible to include a fix this in 2.11.2.

[jaakristioja]

On the other hand, a non-user-visible solution might be better (such as always refreshing the library every time the wizard is run, or in case no works are found).

[gholmlund]

This change covers the case when a user has installed works, then removed the $HOME/.sword dir and wants to install more works.

[ngoonee]

Just tried it and it does what it says on the tin. Thanks