Testing BibleTime on Ubuntu
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Introduction
This page documents one way to install BibleTime from .deb packages, in preparation for testing it.
Longer term, BibleTime is expected to be included in Debian and Ubuntu, which will further simplify this process.
Installing and Updating the Operating System
1. Install Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 Desktop (or Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 Beta, if that is what you are testing!).
2. Reboot into new OS, log in.
3. Click on Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal.
4. In the terminal, type:
sudo apt-get update # provide password when prompted sudo apt-get upgrade -y # Update the OS sudo shutdown -r now # Reboot
Setting Up APT so it can Install BibleTime Packages
5. Log back in
6. Click on Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal.
7. Add Jmarsden's PPA to software sources. In the terminal window, type:
echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/jmarsden/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main" |\ sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jmarsden.list echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/jmarsden/ppa/ubuntu intrepid universe" |\ sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jmarsden.list
8. Trust the PPA's GPG key. In the Terminal window, type:
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 84a9bda6580d02d9
9. Update apt software database. In the Terminal window, type:
sudo apt-get update
Install BibleTime from Packages
10. Install BibleTime. In the Terminal window, type:
sudo apt-get install bibletime --no-install-recommends -y
Run BibleTime
11. Run Bibletime. In the Terminal window, type:
ulimit -c 1000000 # So we will actually save a core dump if we segfault bibletime &
Note: The reason for running BibleTime like this (rather than from the Application menu) during testing is so that any warning or error messages will be visible in the Terminal window, and that if BibleTime crashes, it will produce a core dump.
See Testing BibleTime for suggestions concerning how to test BibleTime.
