Add Logos 30.0+ Support

[thw26]

FaithLife released an update in Logos 30.0 that requires new DLLs.

STATUS

We are working on sorting this one out. We have an initial set of fixes but bumped into a secondary set of problems after the initial fix.

WORKAROUND

Install the last version of 29 and disable auto-updates.

[eric-hansen]

How do we download v29 exactly?

[thw26]

At this point the easiest way will be to use the Python rewrite:

https://github.com/FaithLife-Community/LogosLinuxInstaller

The best would be to wait for us to release alpha3 due to issues in alpha2, but you can run from source (requires Python 3.12; instructions in README) and it should be fairly easy to do so.

[eric-hansen]

Cool, sounds good. If the recommendation is to use said installer, should this repo be archived or at least the readme updated to reflect?

[thw26]

It will be archived in the near future once we are satisfied with the state of the new Python app. Since it is still alpha, I can't yet archive this. Please see the write up I made for the workaround here:

https://github.com/FaithLife-Community/LogosLinuxInstaller/wiki/Workaround-for-Logos-30-and-Higher-Using-the-Bash-Script

[jre95001]

Thank you! That is a very helpful write-up!

Do you also have a URL to install the previous version of Verbum?

[thw26]

For Verbum, it should be a small modification. Here is the one-liner with no Zenity pop-ups:

LOGOS64_URL="https://downloads.logoscdn.com/LBS10/Verbum/Installer/29.1.0.0022/Verbum-x64.msi"

[noticons]

I'm sure this won't necessarily be helpful, but I just got the update to Wine 9.2 and the update still errors out. Thanks!

[JR1994]

I am still getting the same error as well. I know I set the variable

[ricanlinux@archlinux LogosLinuxInstaller]$ echo $LOGOS64_URL https://downloads.logoscdn.com/LBS10/Installer/29.1.0.0022/Logos-x64.msi

however it is still using the newer MSI

Now the script will check for the MSI installer. Then it will download and install Logos Bible at /home/ricanlinux/LogosBible10/data/wine64_bottle. You will need to interact with the installer. Do you wish to continue? [Y/n]: y Copying: Logos_v32.1.0.0031-x64.msi\ninto: /home/ricanlinux/LogosBible10/data Copying: Launcher-Template.sh into /tmp/LBS.DcQgNz6l Copying: controlPanel-Template.sh into /tmp/LBS.DcQgNz6l Waiting for /home/ricanlinux/LogosBible10/data/bin/wine64 to end properly… Waiting for /home/ricanlinux/LogosBible10/data/bin/wine64 to end properly… Cleaning all temp files… done Installation failed. not found. Exiting…\n\nThe Logos executable was not found. This means something went wrong while installing Logos. Please contact the Logos on Linux community for help.\n\nIf you need help, please consult:\n\nhttps://github.com/ferion11/LogosLinuxInstaller/wiki\nhttps://t.me/linux_logos\nhttps://matrix.to/#/#logosbible:matrix.org Killed

[thw26]

Is that echo intentional?

Can you try running this instead before installing?

LOGOS64_URL=https://downloads.logoscdn.com/LBS10/Installer/29.1.0.0022/Logos-x64.msi

[JR1994]

that is what I did. The echo command validates that the variable has been set that is all.

[thw26]

Besides saying you can use the new Python program as it should be able to handle this, I took a look through the code. I'm not seeing why this would happen on an initial survey.

What you can do is change this line:

https://github.com/ferion11/LogosLinuxInstaller/blob/a794912d7efdae86c7dc381a060fe32f09a9d019/LogosLinuxInstaller.sh#L631C9-L631C31

To instead say:

LOGOS_RELEASE_VERSION="29.1.0.0022"

And that should disable the script's pinging the RSS feed for the latest version of Logos and instead just use the latest. The reason I haven't recommended this before is that it requires editing the file, but it is a simple change.

[JR1994]

Using you method got it install, but when the app starts the sync process it crashes with this error

I can close and relaunch the app running the $HOME/LogosBible10/Logos.sh script

but gives the same crash when trying to sync and I cannot search my Library

[thw26]

We have started discussing that error here:

FaithLife-Community/LogosLinuxInstaller#74

I think it is the lack of support for Logos 30+ that you're seeing here. Best bet is to disable automatic updates.

[noticons]

Be careful about upgrading Wine. I updated to wine 9.3. My logos installation wouldn't run after the upgrade. Thankfully, I was able to downgrade back to 9.2-1 and it ran perfectly

[thw26]

That's the first I've heard that a 9.x binary will work. Perhaps we can get an AppImage of it still.

[noticons]

Oh yeah, I've been using 9.2 for over two weeks and it works great. It won't upgrade to 30, but it runs excellent otherwise. That being said, I'm not using an appimage. I don't know if that is relevant for your decisions.

[thw26]

We have released a new alpha version in the Python script that enables Logos 30+ access. It requires somewhere around at least Wine 9.10+ to run. Closing this issue.