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 🧐
 
I have just installed and got SwordSearcher 10 running in my Thinkpad T14 Gen 1 which has LMDE7 (Debian 13 based). I used the following steps instead of the first two steps given by Brandon in the first post as I thought the LMDE7 would have some issues -

STEP 1 — Updated LMDE

In the Terminal.

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

Enter your password.

Wait until it finishes.

STEP 2 — Enable 32-bit Support as even on a 64-bit system, Wine needs 32-bit libraries.

Run:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt update

STEP 3 — Install Wine + Winetricks

LMDE 7 already includes usable Wine packages but to install everything needed:

sudo apt install -y wine wine64 wine32 winetricks cabextract

This may take a while.

STEP 4 — Verify Wine Installed Correctly

To find that out & the versions, run

wine --version

winetricks --version

I got :
wine-10.0 (Debian 10.0~repack-6)

Executing cd /usr/bin
20250102 - sha256sum: 9df4af038f04c753f3b0b02817cf60a51d8eac32357d070c45dfd139b93bd3f5

or newer.

That means Wine & Winetricks are installed correctly.

After that, from step 3 - EXACTLY as detailed in the instructions.

I have one question though. I am unable to get the icons correctly (under the Bible reference verses) - the first 2 show as boxes and only the last one shows as a star. I have copied ALL the Windows Fonts to the Swordsearcher folders.
 
felix67 said:
I have one question though. I am unable to get the icons correctly (under the Bible reference verses) - the first 2 show as boxes and only the last one shows as a star. I have copied ALL the Windows Fonts to the Swordsearcher folders.
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SwordSearcher 10 uses Segoe UI Symbol and Segoe UI Emoji for those. Try to confirm you have those fonts available in the wine profile.
 
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