Bible software very outdated

[Stevo]

Jeff, it appears that the new Xiphos doesn't pull in the newer libbiblesync1.1-1.2.0 from the test repo that it should. You can manually update that to get it to work, but I'll do a rebuild to force the upgrade.

[JeffA]

Thanks Stevo!

I installed libbiblesync1.1-1.2.0 from Synaptic (didn't see it in MXPI) and it runs now.

[Stevo]

I sent up an updated Xiphos to testing that'll pull it in from now on, too.

MXPI hides lib and dev packages by default, so you have to uncheck that box to see them in the test repo. It does that because there are so many of those packages, they'd swamp out the main ones that people are looking for.

[m_pav]

Thanks guys. I have a backup of my /home folder from back in the MX16 period so I copied the bibletime configs from my backup drive and dumped them into the test laptop with MX18.2 and that got it working, but still no connection to the ftp server.

The connection to the ftp server was fixed with the update to 2.11 and it updates fine, but, using the older configs, immediately after a module installs or updates the app drops like a lead weight and I had to restart it so I trashed the old configs and started fresh, installed 7 modules all is well.

[JeffA]

In Xiphos the editor for Studypad (File>Open Studypad) and personal commentary doesn't open for me in the version in the Test Repo (4.1.0). It does when I have the stable version installed.

[Jerry3904]

What MX version are you running? If you're not sure:

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cat /etc/mx-version

[JeffA]

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MX-18.3_x64 Continuum March 14, 2018

Thanks!

[JeffA]

This may well be applicable: https://github.com/crosswire/xiphos/issues/955

In fact, Xiphos editor is built upon WebKitGtk or GtkHTML libraries. Debian has dropped support for both, so eventually Deb devs built Xiphos without the editor.
libgtkhtml-editor-4.0-0 is available in Sid, maybe you can make a package for Buster and then build Xiphos as before.