Using Accordance With Linux: Has Anyone Tried Bottles?
Hi,
In the previous forum, people discussed how to use Accordance with Linux. I know it's not officially supported. I was going to ask my question there but apparently we can't sign in or post there anymore. So, if this question is considered off-topic, please advise as to where I should post. Thanks.
I know people have asked about using Accordance via WINE and the consensus is that it's difficult. I am fairly new to Linux but have come across something called Bottles which is a user interface for WINE. I'm wondering if anyone has experimented with Accordance using Bottles and how that went?
I would love to ditch Windows and my investment in Accordance is the last thing holding me back. Thanks!
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I doubt using bottles will make a huge difference as things still have to work with wine underneath. And I have been unable to get anything after accordance 10 to work m even worse, accordance 10 did not work on more recent versions of wine. So I am stuck with old accordance and old wine.
The only possible chance is that there is some combination of native libraries that will allow accordance to work. But you'd have to just use trial and error unless your debugging skills are amazing.
I fear our best option is the cloud version of it ever appears.
But post of you can make it work!
I only use Linux and do not have Mac or windows.
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We have an Accordance user who was trying to figure out why 13 and 14 were blacking out on WINE. if they manage to figure it out, They can post here.
In the meantime, we're pressing forward with Accordance Cloud which will be an option for Linux users once we can get it to beta.
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Thanks for the replies. I appreciate it.
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I wasn't able to install under Wine or Crossover but have installed under Virtual Box. It runs Windows 10 but I don't use much as Linux isn't my main computer. It is useable but the screen size is too small for me. That may be fixable but since I use Linux occasionally I haven't spent any time trying to figure it out but it is nice to have there anyway.
I don't know if still true but you used to be able to run Windows without a license but it lacked some features and you had to deal the occasional nags to buy a license. In my case I do have a license so don't know what their policy is now.
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After 30 days Windows won't work without a license.
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Thanks. They must have changed their policy because I used it that way for a few months. This goes back before Windows 11 was released. It also required a special installation from a download from Microsoft.
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Microsoft likes esuring people pay their Windows 11 licenses (or buy a new PC). :-)
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I used Winapps (https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps) with a libvert VM, and it's working quite well. It's pretty similar to virtual box, but it seems to integrate with the desktop better. I haven't tried using it too much, but so far it's been good.
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I tried with Proton and WINE, didnt get it working.
I'm never going back to Windows (10 was the last). And I'm starting to dislike the direction Mac is taking, so if Accordance is only available in MacOS or Windows in the next few years, it'll be a sad day for me to give up on my library. Hopefully, the cloud solution works out. That that'll mean a subscription model for it to be sustainable.0 -
I've been able to get Accordance 10 running with normal WINE in Linux Mint recently, but I see Easy Install isn't making the connection to Accordance. Moving the modules I have from a Windows 10 machine to the appropriate WINE directory isn't causing Accordance to recognize the existence of the modules. Any hints on having Accordance recognize them?
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Garrett O'Hara Nice work.
As an aside, which version of WINE are you running? I haven't tried a reinstall for a long time, but in the past I've had trouble on recent versions of WINE on my machine. I'm running WINE 5 which is ancient!
Installing modules is a pain in the neck. Sadly Accordance turned off Easy Install for version 10 (it used to work under Linux).
What you want can be done, but there's a few steps.
- I suggest you install version 10 on your Windows machine (or in a VM) otherwise, you'll potentially get modules downloaded that require a more recent version of Accordance than 10.
- Copy the modules across as you have done.
- Opening the module files is a bit fidly. Because they are directories, the file browser tends to either do nothing or navigate in to them rather than opening them. This is the method that works for me:
- Click on the module (e.g., NIV11.atext) so that it highlights (it won't appear in the “File Name:” text box).
- Click on the “Open” button (this will navigate you inside the directory).
- Click on the “Resources” folder (now for some random reason the “File Name:” text box is populated.
- Go back up to the parent directory (the “File Name:” text box remains populated)
- Click on the “Open” button again and now the module will open
- But you are not out of trouble yet. Accordance can't access the server to verify that you own the module, so it will ask you to enter an unlock code. Accordance support has always been happy to supply me with these if I email them.
- Once you have the code, enter it and the module will open and remain recognised in your library.
- Repeat until you run out of patience.
This is tedious, so I only install the modules I *really* want. I've had pretty good success getting texts and tools working. One random exception is the NRSV notes modules which refuse to install.
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