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First off, don’t be afraid, I won’t use this column to proselytize, I promise. Regardless of anyone’s belief or disbelief in the Bible’s message, it is a significant work of world literature, and a great deal of our systems of law and of cultural mores derive from it, and those facts make the Bible unquestionably worthy of study and examination. Fortunately, Linux has a top quality program for this in BibleTime.
Installing BibleTime
As is so often the case, BibleTime is most easily installed from the command-line by invoking a terminal (for more on how to get to a command line/terminal window, see Everyday Ubuntu in Full Circle Magazine issue # 160, page 40). Once we’re in the terminal, we can type in the following:
sudo apt-get install bibletime
then hit <Enter>, provide your superuser credentials (for more on this, see Everyday Ubuntu # 160, page 40 again), hit <Enter> again, and the system will install BibleTime for us. We can now run BibleTime by going to the applications drawer at the bottom-left of our screen.
then scroll up, if necessary, using the dots on the right side, clicking on the top-most to take us to the first page of installed software, where we will probably find BibleTime. You can also hit the magnifying glass icon at the top to invoke the search function, and search for BibleTime, but it’s very likely to be on the first, or maybe second page, considering the alphabetical order of the software listings. Click on BibleTime and it will launch.
Bookshelf Manager
When you start BibleTime for the first time,it will launch the Bookshelf Manager. In order for BibleTime to function, it first has to download some data (Bibles, lexicons, atlases, dictionaries, etc), so that will be the first thing we do. You’ll see a Welcome screen that explains this (bottom left).
Since this is the necessary first step, you’ll want to make sure you’re online – especially if you’ve gone offline since the initial installation. The first Bookshelf Manager screen looks like that shown on the previous page, bottom right.
The first time through, you’re obviously going to need to pick ‘Install additional works’, as above. On the second screen, you can select your remote sources.
Bible.org and Crosswire will be sufficient for most people, as they are jam-packed with various works, but Xiphos and eBible.org are also worthwhile resources. On page 3, the Bookshelf Manager wants to know what languages you want to use:
Then it will let you start selecting the works you want to install specifically:
Click the boxes to select the desired works, then click Install Works. This part of the process can take a very long time, you might want to start it when you know it will be a while before you want to use the computer, like overnight (of course, you can always multitask while it runs in the background, but expect slowdowns).
You can expect to see the progress screen for quite some time.
Once it completes, you’ll be in the BibleTime main interface screen (bottom left).
Next month: We’ll adjust BibleTime’s configuration and examine the program’s functionality.