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Monday, January 14, 2008

Travels with the N800: Installing a Bible

Image: Screenshot of Rapier Bible reader for Mameo Linus, via Rapier website

Being that I am on the tablet more often than not these days, I am looking for ways to use it to enhance what I already do with tech. One of those areas in particular is in that of reading, studying, and journaling the Bible. While its pretty easy usually to find Bible readers on other mobile computing platforms, it proved to be a bit more difficult for me with the IT. Add to that, some aspects of installing and getting rolling with using a Bible on the IT have been a lesson in patience and understanding Linux a bit more.

This is a (small) journal of my experiences in downloading, installing, and using a Bible on my IT.

- Tipped to a recent update of Rapier at Jaiku, I made my way over to the Rapier homepage to bone up on Rapier and see if it would be suitable enough to meet my needs.

- Things looked fine, so I downloaded Rapier per the instructions on the site (which took a bit to understand); I then looked for how to download and install a Bible

- Found the Bibles at the Sword Library's website. Though no instructions there on how to install the Bibles to the tablet. Went back to Rapier's homepage to look for instructions there.

It was at this moment that I got a good bit perturbed, and at the same time understand why only the brave ones take a hand in Linux.

I'll continue this one a bit later. But I can say that from this point, things get a little complicated and I don't exactly make it through the install pain free. Stay tuned.

Labels: Bible, internet tablet, N800, software, Sword Project

1 Comments:

At Monday, January 14, 2008 5:16:00 PM, paulgear said...: You don't have to be that brave to install Linux, Sword, and Rapier! :-) Once i was able to download it, it installed quickly and easily, and works great! Come and join us on IRC in #sword at irc.freenode.net and chat about it.