In this configuration, a system-wide file is created /etc/sword.conf which points to the installation of common sword modules located under: /usr/share/sword/ To use, as root, copy the sword.conf file located in this directory to /etc $ su Password: ******** # cp sword.conf /etc then create a sword repository under /usr/share # mkdir /usr/share/sword You may also want to copy the locales directory to your new sword repository # cp -R ../../locales.d/ /usr/share/sword then install modules in /usr/share/sword # cd /usr/share/sword # unzip ~/DownloadedSwordModule.zip