How to install and use Sword Installmgr

Chapter 5. How to install and use Sword Installmgr

Sword Installmgr is not provided with the BibleTime .rpm. You need to download the source tarball from the Crosswire Bible Society. A precompiled copy of Sword Installmgr is included on the Sword CD which can be obtained from the Crosswire Bible Society

Requirements for Sword Installmgr

All of the packages required for Sword Installmgr to compile are included in the major Linux® distributions. It is also possible to compile Sword Installmgr on most UNIX® distributions. If you encounter compile errors, please read the messages, they should lead you to missing packages which you will probably find on your installation disks.

The following table contains the minimum requirements for Sword Installmgr binaries to run, or for the source version to compile.

Table 5.0. Packages required for Sword Installmgr

Package Location
Sword Use the version provided with your copy of Sword. Must be configured (in the file ~/sword/Makefile.cfg) with the VCL libraries = yes
GTK If you are compiling Sword Installmgr, any version of GTK should work.
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