[CS-FSLUG] biblestudy on debian

[Alvin Smith]

On Tuesday 01 March 2005 01:10 pm, john-thomas richards wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 10:49:06AM -0500, Alvin Smith wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > > This appears to be a Palm application.  Are you just looking for
> > > general Bible study apps?
> >
> > It is another application that uses the Sword Project files.  I ran
> > across it while installing Bibletime and Gnomesword on my Gentoo box. 
> > When I typed "Bible" into the search box in Porthole I found that I could
> > install a previously unknown to me application called "Biblestudy".  But
> > it seems that there are no debs for it, and it requires xvWindows
> > libraries, (which I did install), and some other stuff that I have not
> > identified yet.  Make fails. So I was just wondering if anyone on this
> > list has had any experience installing and using this application,
> > especially Debian users.
>
> Ah.  xvWindows does not appear to be available on Debian, either from
> lack of interest or violations of the Debian Social Contract.
>
> > I currently use Gnomesword for Bible study.  I love the way it is laid
> > out.
>
> I use GnomeSword frequently when preparing for teaching on Sundays or in
> writing sermons/articles.  If only the ESV module were available...
>
> > But any time I see something that is new to me, I want to try it out.
>
> You must lose a lot of sleep.  ;-)

Sleep?  What is this "sleep" thing that you speak of? :-)

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peace,
Alvin Smith
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