[GnomeSword-users] Ubuntu tarballs for Xiphos 3.1.6

[Karl K. <ka...@kl...>]

Fedora packaging is being handled, and as soon as a dependency glitch is
fixed, Fedora users will be able to "yum update" to get 3.1.6.

Ubuntu is another story.

It seems that making *.deb for Ubuntu is a whole new experience in
pain.  I'm not inclined to go learn the details of this particular
nightmare, and frankly I don't understand why there's any challenge to
taking what was already available for 3.1.5 packaging, edit it for Sword
version and GTK2 dependencies, build and release.

But what do I know.  So here's a short-term, hack solution for such
systems, at least if you're running amd64.  (Does anyone still install
i686 systems any more?)  Surf this:

http://ftp.xiphos.org/sword/tarball/

Pick up *.tar.gz that you find there.  Make sure you do not have sword
(libsword?) and xiphos packages installed.  Then do these commands:

sudo tar xzvpf sword*.tar.gz -C /
sudo tar xzvpf xiphos*.tar.gz -C /
ldconfig

I built these on Ubuntu 13.04 amd64.  I'm not sure I've got the
capability right now to build for i686.