[xiphos-users] [sword-devel] Xiphos 4.5.0

Sun Sep 13 19:25:26 EDT 2026

I tried to install it but it comes back
E: Unable to locate package libbiblesync.so.1.1
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'libbiblesync.so.1.1'

On Sun, Sep 13, 2026 at 6:21 PM Chuck Hast <wchast at gmail.com> wrote:

> My bad... Not sure what I was thinking (well yes I was, I installed
> mini-split in the server/production
> room at church last night (saturday night) and was thinking "will it be
> working this a.m.?" Anyhow
> When i invoked it properly I got this:
> kp4djt at FW16-kp4djt:~$ xiphos
> xiphos: error while loading shared libraries: libbiblesync.so.1.1: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory
> kp4djt at FW16-kp4djt:~$
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2026 at 5:32 PM Fred <fred.fredex at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Chuck, it is "xiphos". no y, no n.
>>
>> Fred
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 13, 2026 at 12:28 PM Chuck Hast <wchast at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I am running Linux Mint 22.4
>>>
>>> On Sun, Sep 13, 2026 at 11:27 AM Chuck Hast <wchast at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just installed it but when I invoke it, it does not run when I invoke
>>>> xyphos from the terminal to see
>>>> what is going on it says not found. When I do a find it finds nothing
>>>> labeled xyphons
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2026 at 11:50 AM Ed Backell <edbackell at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Please let me know if this works for you:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/14TMSwn8-Ujk1inJ8YSkd98Vyc4FRl7Fv/view?usp=drive_link
>>>>> KFJ - Pastor Ed
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2026 at 3:04 AM Phillip Waters <muddy at muddys.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Please
>>>>>> On 9/9/26 6:33 PM, Ed Backell wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have compiled 4.5.0.2 on my Linux Mint system.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does anyone need the .deb? I can post a link.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> KFJ - Pastor Ed Backell
>>>>>> Spokane Valley, WA
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 9, 2026 at 2:54 PM Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Xiphos 4.5.0 packages are in flight on Fedora Rawhide[0] and also in
>>>>>>> nixpkgs[1] for Nix or NixOS users. Oddly, I had to add sqlite to the
>>>>>>> packaging for Nixpkgs. Configure failed in finding necessary packages
>>>>>>> without it. No such issues on Fedora.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --Greg
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [0] https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=150071755
>>>>>>> [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/561712
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 3:20 PM Karl Kleinpaste <karl at kleinpaste.org>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Xiphos release 4.5.0 <https://github.com/crosswire/xiphos/releases>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Last release was in June. That was kind of intermediate due to some
>>>>>>>> security bugs. Turns out, there were several more lurking, now handled by
>>>>>>>> generous contributors, mostly dealing with internal URL handling.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> A lot has happened since June. Notably, bookmark folder colors have
>>>>>>>> given way to bookmarked verse colorization per folder color, including
>>>>>>>> mouse-hover reveal of which bookmark(s) induced a verse's colorization.
>>>>>>>> Also, display of entire Bible books is available in main display (only; not
>>>>>>>> parallel, not dialogs) at Prefs → Options → Display whole Bible books.
>>>>>>>> Those 2 features induced the jump straight from 4.4 → 4.5, in consideration
>>>>>>>> of the volume of display code updates they required. A bunch of display
>>>>>>>> gotchas have been repaired, such as broken checkmark images in Prefs and
>>>>>>>> Mod.Mgr. There is a modules "Favorites" category in sidebar display. Saved
>>>>>>>> parallel sets are available in Prefs. A direct reference to Google
>>>>>>>> Translate is available by mouse-sweeping some Heb/Grk text and using the
>>>>>>>> context menu option. AndBible bookmarks can be imported. Verse list
>>>>>>>> multi-sets can be optionally selected via a popup menu. Multi-column
>>>>>>>> display has been expanded to 8 due to recent experience with large
>>>>>>>> monitors. Margin justification defaults on.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> A couple screenshots of bookmark colorization + user annotation
>>>>>>>> highlight can be seen here
>>>>>>>> <http://ftp.xiphos.org/sword/pub/xiphos/binaries/images/>.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The Windows build is internal to the release process, already
>>>>>>>> present at the release page. As well, there are initial builds for Fedora
>>>>>>>> 42/43/44, RHEL 9/10, and Ubuntu (via alien(1)) available at this
>>>>>>>> link <http://ftp.xiphos.org/sword/pub/xiphos/binaries/> but
>>>>>>>> pumpkin holders by distro should get up to speed in due time.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The issues list is down to a bare dozen, from a high of over 100
>>>>>>>> this time last year. Half of what remain are wish list items without a
>>>>>>>> clear path forward.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Huge thanx particularly to Cyrille for his many contributions.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --karl
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