Guide to Running SwordSearcher on Linux Operating Systems (Updated June 2024)

The instructions do work well, even for SwordSearcher 10 and Wine 11, if you are using a standard Linux distribution. Those looking to explore atomic distributions such as Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite or the Universal Blue (Bazzite, Aurora, etc.) will have some additional challenges.

I have given up on SwordSearcher on my main PC because I am going atomic there (Bazzite). I could use a Windows VM there but that would require me to buy a Windows license. No thanks. I do have an old laptop that is still running Windows. That machine will be my SwordSearcher device until I hear any news about Wine making enough of the right improvements to run SwordSearcher properly.
 
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KevMantis said:
The instructions do work well, even for SwordSearcher 10 and Wine 11, if you are using a standard Linux distribution. Those looking to explore atomic distributions such as Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite or the Universal Blue (Bazzite, Aurora, etc.) will have some additional challenges.

I have given up on SwordSearcher on my main PC because I am going atomic there (Bazzite). I could use a Windows VM there but that would require me to buy a Windows license. No thanks. I do have an old laptop that is still running Windows. That machine will be my SwordSearcher device until I hear any news about Wine making enough of the right improvements to run SwordSearcher properly.
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Amen,,, this is awesome fix !
 
felix67 said:
I would not give up. I followed the instructions given by Brandon in the first post onwards exactly, except for the last step of editing the shortcut. It is working well on my Linux Mint 22. 3 as well as Linux Mint Debian Edition 7. The only thing not correctly is some icons. Which Linux distro are you using?
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This is great news!
 
Dan K said:
I am fairly new to Linux. I am using Zorin OS 18 on one of my laptops and Installed SwordSearcher 10 using ChatGPT to guide me and it was easy to installing it by just copy pasting instructions into the terminal.
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That's very interesting 🧐
 
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