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Logos Bible Software On Linux Via Wine

This page is for running Logos on x86_64 desktop Linux. For other installs, see:

• Logos / Verbum 10 Install Guide. Note that this guide is slightly outdated.
• Logos on ARM/AARCH64 Linux
• Logos on Mobile Linux

Linux remains officially unsupported but we are moving in the right direction! For support use Telegram or Matrix. Telegram and Matrix are bridged.

Recommended Install

Our recommended install is to use Logos 10 with Wine 7.18+ or with Proton.

Note there are issues with Wine 7.19–22 with using the .exe installer. The script uses the .msi installer and should bypass this issue. The latest work in Logos and Wine 8.0+ should make the .exe installer work well again.

Backups, Uninstalling, Reinstalling

Uninstalling is as simple as deleting the wine bottle (e.g., ~/LogosBible10). Likewise you should be able to rsync the directory between different installs if need be.

If you wish to backup or maintain recently indexed data, the needed Logos data is stored in the following directories. Please note these are standard for the script; if you have moved them around, adjust the $HOME variable:

$HOME/LogosBible10/data/wine64_bottle/drive_c/users/$USER/Local\ Settings/Application\ Data/Logos/Data
$HOME/LogosBible10/data/wine64_bottle/drive_c/users/$USER/Local\ Settings/Application\ Data/Logos/Documents
$HOME/LogosBible10/data/wine64_bottle/drive_c/users/$USER/Local\ Settings/Application\ Data/Logos/Users

Wine Bottles Install [WIP]

Bottles is a management interface for wine, which installs its software in "bottles".

Known Issues

Please see the Git Issues tracker. Also note:

Enhancements Needed

• Media Playback (enhancement): https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47905 patch which prevents crash but functionality needs to be created in wine, developer aware and helping. See https://github.com/ferion11/LogosLinuxInstaller/issues/87.
• Speech (enhancement): https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47922 Frank and John working on.
• Printing (enhancement): Doesn’t work if win version is set to win10. Doesn’t print to all printers. Some characters in the footers are missing.
• Faithlife Assistant: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52379 Fix already in staging… will track through to completion.
• Error in Async Work. See https://github.com/ferion11/LogosLinuxInstaller/issues/105.
• Logos becomes unresponsive after a time. See https://github.com/ferion11/LogosLinuxInstaller/issues/101.

Regressions

• Updating (regression): https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49767 Don’t know how to address this. Data loss occurs sometimes on update (this has always been the case, but the regression is that no updates happen at all. Logos reports no updates available but can download new resources and data sets. It is still possible to update manually.). See https://github.com/ferion11/LogosLinuxInstaller/issues/120.
• Menus (regression): https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52380 Not technically a regression in wine since this issue appears from Logos 9.10 onwards, it reveals a bug in wine.

Please see the Bug Fixing Guide in order to help improve Logos on Wine.

Distro Specific Issues

If you discover an issue with your distro, please add it here.

Steam Proton

Logos can be run using Valve's Steam Proton fork of wine. The binary should be located in the following directory, unless you have moved it or are using a different library location:

• /home/$USER/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton - Experimental/files/bin/wine64
• /home/$USER/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton - Experimental/files/bin/wineserver

Replace any calls to wine64 or wineserver with these binaries. NOTE: Linux requires that paths with whitespaces in them be quoted, either with single or double quotes. A whitespace is viewed as a breaking character and your system will likely tell you that Proton is a directory if you do not quote.

Steam Deck (n.b. also includes arch linux dependencies (see point 9)

The steam deck has a locked down filesystem. There are some missing dependencies which cause irregular crashes in Logos. These can be installed following this sequence:

1. Enter Desktop Mode
2. Use passwd to create a password for the deck user, unless you already did this.
3. Disable read-only mode: sudo steamos-readonly disable
4. Initialize pacman keyring: sudo pacman-key --init
5. Populate pacman keyring with the default Arch Linux keys: sudo pacman-key --populate archlinux
6. Get package lists: sudo pacman -Fy
7. Fix locale issues sudo pacman -Syu glibc
8. then sudo locale-gen
9. Install dependencies: `sudo pacman -S samba winbind cabextract appmenu-gtk-module patch bc lib32-libjpeg-turbo

Packages you install may be overwritten by the next Steam OS update, but you can easily reinstall them if that happens.

After these steps you can go ahead and run the your install script but choose to use the appImage rather than any other wine or proton installed on the system. The appImage is tested and reliable, proton gets frequent updates which can break compatibility.

Potential Ways to Improve Logos On Linux

• Mods to the scripted install.
  • Offer to update Logos. See https://github.com/ferion11/LogosLinuxInstaller/issues/130.
    • Possibly check Logos version somehow against installer version
    • If updating
      • Rename to _temp
      • Install as usual
      • Copy user dirs and shortcut dir back into new install before first run
      • Offer to create the shortcut
• Create a Bottles installer. Effort ongoing: (https://github.com/jg00dman/programs)