This is a short list of available download locations. Packages which are not provided on our SourceForge pages might be outdated. Please see below for detailed download and installation instructions.
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Sourcecode and packages for major Linux distributions can be downloaded from SourceForge.
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Ubuntu packages are available in the repository and here. Updated packages for Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) and 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) are offered here.
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Debian packages are available in the repository and here.
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Gentoo packages are in Portage. Just call "emerge bibletime".
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A FreeBSD application port of BibleTime can be found on www.freebsd.org.
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PC-BSD packages are available here.
This section explains how to install BibleTime on your system. Basically there are two ways to install it: Either by using prebuilt binary packages or by compiling from source code. Installing BibleTime using prebuilt packages is the easiest way.
With the help of great volunteers, we try to provide packages for the most important Linux distributions. Before installing BibleTime, however, you need to find and install packages for CLucene >= 0.9.16a and Sword (Sword binaries are available at the BibleTime download site).
First download the binary package for your Linux distribution. For example: You want to download BibleTime 1.4 for SuSE Linux 9.0. In this case you have to download the package bibletime-1.4-1.suse9.0.i586.rpm.
Please download the package "bibletime-i18n" package, too. This package contains the available translations of the BibleTime user interface and handbook.
If there are no packages for your version of Linux you have to install from source code. Please see below how to do that.
Installation using BibleTime's source code is more difficult than using binary packages. Please follow the steps below if you decided to install BibleTime from sources:
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At first make sure the required software is installed on your system. Depending on your Linux distribution you have to install the development packages of the required software, too.
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At least the libraries and the base package. KDE 3 is shipped with many Linux distributions. Very often it's installed by default.
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This is necessary for the new instant search feature.
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Installation instructions are available on www.crosswire.org/sword/software. Basically the installation steps are
./usrinst.sh --enable-shared --without-clucenemakemake installmake install_config
Please note that this list is only valid for the latest version of BibleTime, older versions may require other software.
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Compile and install BibleTime:
./configure --prefix=<your KDE directory>makemake installYou can get your KDE directory by running the command kde-config --prefix. If you get problems please read our FAQ. If there's no solution of your problem, please contact us at
<info@bibletime.info>.Debian (and possibly derived distros as well) use a non-standard path to store the documentation of KDE programs. Therefore the ./configure line above in this case needs to be changed to:
kde_htmldir=/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML ./configure --prefix=/usrIf you forget this, you'll likely not be able to access the handbook and the BibleStudy HowTo.
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Compile and install the translations of BibleTime's user interface (bibletime-i18n):
./configure --prefix=<your KDE directory>makemake installPlease see the warning regarding nonstandard paths in the previous paragraph.
You need Sword modules to work with BibleTime. Since version 1.4 BibleTime offers a userfriendly dialog (the Bookshelf Manager) to install/update/remove works. We strongly recommend this way to install works on your computer.
Instructions for manual installation is available on www.crosswire.org/sword/modules.
Here is a list of available types of works and where to get more information:
