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License

BibleTime is completely free (Free Software and Open Source). It's released under the GPL v.2 license. Basically it means that you can download and use it freely. If you want to redistribute it you have to make sure that the receivers get the source code, too.

Windows

Download the latest Windows installer (v. 2.6)

Go to the SourceForge.net download page

Go to the latest development version downloads

Requirements

  • Windows XP, Vista or 7

Bibles and other texts

BibleTime installer doesn't contain any texts. You have to open the Bookshelf Manager from the Settings menu, refresh the default remote source (the CrossWire main repository), select works and click Install.

Possible problems

  • If your user name includes non-ASCII letters (other than a-z) BibleTime doesn't work
  • If you use works in different languages, e.g. Greek and Hebrew, you may need to install a unicode font

Linux/*nix

Debian/Gnu Linux

Bibletime 2.x is in Debian unstable (sid). So is the SWORD library package sword 1.6.x. You can subscribe to email notifications of new uploads of bibletime on bibletime PTS page.

Alternatively, you can try rebuilding the packages from the Crosswire Packaging PPA (they are not binary compatible, so you must rebuild them from source on Debian, but they are kept compile-compatible, so no tweaking is required.)

Ubuntu Linux

The Debian/Ubuntu Crosswire packaging team is working on improving the state of Bibletime and other Crosswire related software. The Crosswire Packaging PPA has their latest public packages available in it. Follow the link, add the source to your apt system configuration and you can install the latest packages with normal Ubuntu procedures.

Ubuntu Karmic (9.10) and later releases should have SWORD >= 1.6.0 and BibleTime >= 2.0 packages included, with no special actions needed by the user to see them -- just install the "bibletime " package using any package manager (apt, aptitude, or Synaptic will all work), just like any other software that is a part of Ubuntu. If you want to keep up with latest BibleTime version, see CrossWire Packaging Team above.

RPM packages

http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=bibletime&submit=Search+...

Fedora Linux

You can see the status of BibleTime packages and find links to each package: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=1387. Or see RPM packages above.

Mandriva Linux

See RPM packages above, or http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?distrib=&version=&arch=&search=bibletime&st=rpmname which seems to have newer packages.

Suse Linux

Gentoo Linux

BibleTime works with Portage as usual, since BibleTime is in the main Portage repository (thanks to the Gentoo developers). Example: 

emerge --ask bibletime

Newer versions of BibleTime might be available through our official Gentoo overlay, which you can simply install by using layman: 

layman -a bibletime

 

Linux Mint

Should be compatible with Ubuntu packages, which see above.

FreeBSD

You can get more information about downloading/installing for FreeBSD at http://www.freshports.org/misc/bibletime.

PC-BSD

You can download the PBI for PC-BSD from http://www.pbidir.com/bt/pbi/149.

MacOSX