Cannot install Bible app

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calher

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A rejoint: 06/19/2015

When I upgraded from 7 to 8, it made me uninstall Xiphos, my Bible app.

Now, I can't even install it.

cal@user-ThinkPad-X200:~/Desktop$ sudo apt install xiphos
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
 xiphos : Depends: libbiblesync1.1 (> 1.1.2-0) but it is not
installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
cal@user-ThinkPad-X200:~/Desktop$ 

andyprough
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A rejoint: 02/12/2015

I borrowed libbiblesync from Debian Stretch when I installed Xiphos. https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=biblesync&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all

I don't know enough about the various licenses to know if libbiblesync's licensing is a freedom concern. Its 2014 license is "public-domain", and it has a 2015 license by someone at Ubuntu that's a "BSD-3-Clause" license. The license terms are:
"Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:
1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
3. Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its contributors
may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
without specific prior written permission."

Xiphos is amazing software by the way. I really like having access to so many versions of the Bible and so many study guides and commentaries.

nadebula.1984
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A rejoint: 05/01/2018

I searched for "libbiblesync" at packages.debian.org

It is only available in stable (stretch) and unstable (sid) branches. Obviously it is (being) deprecated.

andyprough
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A rejoint: 02/12/2015

From the Xiphos project git page on March 27th -
"Update dependencies (#871) - Sword 1.8+ is now required
Fedora 26 will not ship 1.8
None of the Debian or Ubuntu-based distros currently ship Sword 1.8, either"

Looks like the whole project is at a crossroads on Linux. Wonder what is happening with Sword to make this a problem?

freeatlast

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A rejoint: 07/21/2018

we have the problem solved here

https://trisquel.info/en/issues/24069

calher

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A rejoint: 06/19/2015

On Tue, 2018-07-24 at 16:25 +0200, name at domain wrote:
> we have the problem solved here
>
> https://trisquel.info/en/issues/24069

Cool!  What kind of voodoo do I have to do to get the library?

andyprough
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A rejoint: 02/12/2015

> Cool! What kind of voodoo do I have to do to get the library?

cd /opt/
sudo wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/biblesync/libbiblesync1.1_1.1.2-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libbiblesync1.1_1.1.2-1_amd64.deb

That's how I did it.

freeatlast

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A rejoint: 07/21/2018

i just went here and used gdebi to install it

https://packages.debian.org/stretch/amd64/libbiblesync1.1/download

calher

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A rejoint: 06/19/2015

Thank you, everyone! Got it installed and working!

And I can see vowel points on the Hebrew text now!