On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 01:13:42AM -0700, Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > Dear Isaac, > > While your information is not inaccurate, it can be quite confusing. > > SWORD, by default, configures itself to save global modules under > /usr/share/sword/ > > Your instructions are not what must be done, as you have said "you will have > to..." Your configuration is a choice to install modules privately only for > a single user account. The default configuration also supports this, as > SWORD will first look at the global path (/usr/share/sword/) and then > ~/.sword/ and augment modules found there as well. Thank you for correcting me.
> While installmgr previously did not output proper errors when it could not > write to the output path, this is no longer the case for a while now. Might I ask when this was fixed? I ran into it with 1.7.3. > Your information might be helpful, but I hope next time you might preface it > with a clause something like: "I find that the default configuration to > store files globally is more trouble than it is worth. I have change my > configuration to always install modules to my single user home directory." > > Troy > Thank you and God bless, Isaac Dunham > > On 08/29/2014 05:51 PM, Isaac Dunham wrote: > >Hello Jon, > >I've run into issues with installmgr not working as documented previously; > >here's some notes: > >1. If you used sudo, be sure to "sudo rm -r ~/.sword" before trying to > >set things up. > >Otherwise, you may be dealing with read-only config files and install paths. > > > >2. Before installing anything, you will have to create > >~/.sword/sword.conf containing this: > >=== > >[INSTALL] > >DataPath=/home/<username>/.sword > >=== > >where <username> stands for your login name. > > > >A shortcut in the console: > >mkdir ~/.sword && \ > >printf "[INSTALL]\nDataPath=$HOME/.sword\n" >~/.sword/sword.conf > > > >This can be done after syncing the repositories if you prefer. > > > >You may wish to check if /etc/sword.conf contains anything beyond > >a similar directive. > > > >3. installmgr will report success when it didn't succeed due to read-only > >DataPath. > >To check whether the modules are installed, I suggest: > >diatheke -b system -k modulelist > > > > > >Hope this helps you, > >Isaac Dunham > > > >_______________________________________________ > >sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > >http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > >Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
