How would I make Bible Analzer actually work?

**jrog** · October 9th, 2012

Originally Posted by Jackalyn

Press Enter to close terminal
jacky@jacky-Aspire-6930G:~$ sudo dpkg -i bibleanalyzer.4.5-5.all.deb
dpkg: error processing bibleanalyzer.4.5-5.all.deb (--install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
bibleanalyzer.4.5-5.all.deb
jacky@jacky-Aspire-6930G:~$

Is it in your current directory as it must be? When you type 'ls' (without quotes) at the terminal, does it show bibleanalyzer.4.5-5.all.deb?

**Jackalyn** · October 9th, 2012

Originally Posted by jrog

'package_name' should reference the .deb file. So, if the .deb file is in your current directory, you would type:

Code:

sudo dpkg -i bibleanalyzer.4.5-5.all.deb

That will only work if the .deb file is in your current directory, though. If it is elsewhere, you will have to change into the directory where it is or provide the path to the .deb file.

How do I change the directory? If the thing closes on my then I cannot send it to anywhere else???? NOT that I have a clue where the current directory is!

Thanks

**oldos2er** · October 9th, 2012

Can you run

Code:

sudo apt-get install -f

in a terminal, and copy and paste the output here? I think the .deb file was not fully installed.

**audiomick** · October 10th, 2012

Originally Posted by Jackalyn

How do I change the directory?... NOT that I have a clue where the current directory is!

Thanks

Someone already posted

Code:

ls

This command lists the contents of the directory you are in. That is to say, when you start the terminal, the system has you in a particular place in your file system.

This is what I get when I just open a terminal and do "ls"

Code:

mick@mick-laptop:~$ ls
Allen & Heath
Bilder
Bildschirmfoto-Profile of audiomick - Mozilla Firefox.png
Desktop
Dokumente
Downloads
examples.desktop
fromFlashPen03Feb2012
gsmartcontrolresults_26Sep2010.txt
hardrive utility.png
image
image.tiff
img_0266edited.jpg
Musik
Öffentlich
operanewbuttons.png
out.jpeg
out.pdf
out.pnm
qcad-manual-en-2.1.0.0-1.html
qcad-manual-en-2.1.0.0-1.html.zip
recovery mode
rotateouf.png
SMART_values.png
SoftwareandStuff
system monitor.png
Ubuntu One
UkrainePics
Videos
Vorlagen
mick@mick-laptop:~$

That is the contents of my /home/mick folder, i.e. the /home/user folder for the user that I am logged in as.

This bit

Code:

mick@mick-laptop:~$

Shows you where you are at. This thing ~ indicates the /home/user folder. The $ indicates that you are logged in as a non-root user. I think you get a # in it's place if your are operating with root privileges. The rest is "mick" for the user and "@mick-laptop" to show which computer I am dealing with. Seems silly until your remember that you can do things like logging into another computer using SSH, in which case I would see "mick@another-computer-altogether"

To change where you are at, you use

Code:

cd

so, referring back to the list of stuff in my /home/user folder, I do

Code:

cd Allen & Heath

and discover I have stumbled across something that you have to be aware of. In the terminal, you have to make sure that you get the names absolutely correct, and it can't deal with file names that have spaces and other special characters like the & in that directory name. That has a meaning as a command. That means that it is a good practice to not use such things in your file names. I changed that folder name to "Allen_and_Heath", so now we can continue.

Code:

mick@mick-laptop:~$ ls
Allen_and_Heath
Bilder
Bildschirmfoto-Profile of audiomick - Mozilla Firefox.png
Desktop
Dokumente
Downloads
...
Videos
Vorlagen
mick@mick-laptop:~$ cd Allen_and_Heath
mick@mick-laptop:~/Allen_and_Heath$ ls
iLive_Editor_V1point83
mick@mick-laptop:~/Allen_and_Heath$ cd iLive_Editor_V1point83
mick@mick-laptop:~/Allen_and_Heath/iLive_Editor_V1point83$ ls
EULA.txt                           iLiveINIFile.xml  SessionLock
iLive Editor 1.83.jar              lib               shows
iLiveEditor1.83.sh                 libraries         uninstall
iLiveEditorV1.83LocalEventLog.xml  Readme.txt
mick@mick-laptop:~/Allen_and_Heath/iLive_Editor_V1point83$ cd ..
mick@mick-laptop:~/Allen_and_Heath$ ls
iLive_Editor_V1point83
mick@mick-laptop:~/Allen_and_Heath$ cd ..
mick@mick-laptop:~$ ls
Allen_and_Heath
Bilder
Bildschirmfoto-Profile of audiomick - Mozilla Firefox.png
Desktop
Dokumente
Downloads
...
Videos
Vorlagen
mick@mick-laptop:~$

Note that I have edited a lot of the contents of /home/mick out of that output to make it shorter. The missing bit is where the ... is. What you can see after the word "vorlagen" is that I used cd to change into the directory Allen_and_Heath,
ls to see what is in there, and then cd again to change into
iLive_Editor_V1point83,
and then ls again to see what is in there. At that point, the prompt is

Code:

mick@mick-laptop:~/Allen_and_Heath/iLive_Editor_V1point83$

You can see how the directories line up in the prompt to show you where you are. ~ for the /home/user directory, inside that the directory
Allen_and_Heath
and inside that the directory
iLive_Editor_V1point83
with a / between each sucessive directory and the $ on the end to show which user you are logged in as.

The next thing was to use

Code:

cd ..

to go up a level. You can see how I did that a couple of times to get back to the /home/user directory, at which point the prompt is once again
mick@mick-laptop:~$

Hope that is clear enough.

**Jackalyn** · October 10th, 2012

I am pretty confused now lol....
Here is the output of the terminal putting in the things people have suggested.

jacky@jacky-Aspire-6930G:~$ :
jacky@jacky-Aspire-6930G:~$
jacky@jacky-Aspire-6930G:~$ mkdir -p ~/Documents/BibleAnalyzer
jacky@jacky-Aspire-6930G:~$ bibleanalyzer
bibleanalyzer: command not found
jacky@jacky-Aspire-6930G:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
[sudo] password for jacky:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
language-pack-kde-en language-pack-kde-en-base kde-l10n-engb
calligra-l10n-engb libkdepim4 calligra-l10n-zhcn calligra-l10n-de
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ precise/partner i386 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.canonical.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_partner _binary-i386_Packages)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
jacky@jacky-Aspire-6930G:~$ apt-get autoremove
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
jacky@jacky-Aspire-6930G:~$ ls
Adobe Digital Editions.desktop output
adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm Personal
bibleanalyzer.2 Photos
bibles Pictures
Calibre Library Practice.zip
calligra Public
DayJournal QuotingPassages.zip
DEBIAN RKJNT.zip
Desktop RWP.zip
Documents sakis3g.gz
Downloads Sample Album
Dropbox SAOA.zip
eSnipsDownloader.exe Smith.zip
ESNIPS WINE DOWNLOADS StrongsGreek.zip
ESP FILES StrongsHebrew.zip
examples.desktop TCR.zip
FIREDANCE TDavid.zip
gVerse-0.5 Templates
gVerse-0.5.tar.gz TEXT FILES AND GEDIT
Java TFG.zip
jsword-latest-bin.tar.gz Torrey(1).zip
kde4 Torrey.zip
libre and open office installations TSK.zip
Link to bibleanalyzer.2 Ubuntu One
MAGAZINE TEMPLATE UKJV.zip
mods.d Untitled Folder
modules Untitled Folder 3
Music usr
My Digital Editions Videos
My eSnips Downloads WEBBE.zip
NETtext (3) WEBME.zip
NETtext.zip WebstersDict.zip
NHEB.zip xdg
jacky@jacky-Aspire-6930G:~$

But if I go to the home folder and open it, Bibleanalyzer IS there and it the very first file.

**audiomick** · October 10th, 2012

This might get a bit long, but bear with it...

Firstly, when you post a lot of output like in the last post, it is very helpful to use the code tags button. That is the # button at the top of the post window. Click on that and you will see the word "code" enclosed in square brackets, followed by /code also enclosed in square brackets. Paste your output between those and it will appear in a nice box. Most importantly, it will appear exactly as it is without any characters being interpreted as a smiley or something silly like that as happens sometimes.

If you are posting a quote, you can use the button that looks like a speech balloon.

So, on to your post...

Firstly, near the top of your output, I see this

Code:

jacky@jacky-Aspire-6930G:~$ bibleanalyzer
bibleanalyzer: command not found

There are two things there. Firstly, if you just put a word at the prompt, it is assumed to be a command. What I think you wanted at that point is to change into the directory that you had just created with mkdir (the command that means "make directory). To do this, you would have had to do

Code:

cd BibleAnalyzer

Note also the capitals. The terminal is case sensitive. When I am doing things like this, I like to use ls to see what the name of the file or directory in question is exactly and often to actually copy and paste the name of the file into the command.

A little further down there is this

Code:

jacky@jacky-Aspire-6930G:~$ apt-get autoremove
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

What has happened there is that you tried to use apt-get autoremove as the normal user. You need to put a "sudo" in front of that so that it is executed with root privileges. This applies to all apt-get operations. You would need to do

Code:

sudo apt-get autoremove

It will then do this

Code:

mick@mick-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove
[sudo] password for mick:

at which point you type in your password. You wont see what you type. Just type the password and hit enter and it will do it's thing.

There is also this in there

Code:

W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ precise/partner i386 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.canonical.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_partner _binary-i386_Packages)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

So accordingly you would do

Code:

sudo apt-get update

Then there is

Code:

jacky@jacky-Aspire-6930G:~$ ls
Adobe Digital Editions.desktop output
adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm Personal
bibleanalyzer.2 Photos
bibles Pictures
Calibre Library Practice.zip
calligra Public
...

where you have used ls to generate a list of the contents of the /home/user folder, but I think you know that by now.

I hope that is clear enough.

In your screenshot, I can see a .deb file for BibleAnalyzer. This is, I take it, the file you used to install the program. If I recall correctly, you said in the first post or so that you had right clicked on it and used the Software centre to install it, or that the Software centre said it was already installed.

That brings us back to the issue that you mentioned right at the start that you see an icon that looks like it would start the program but it doesn't. I don't really know what is causing that, but I think you mentioned problems with Open Office along similar lines. Maybe there is an issue that is not directly related to the program itself.

Did you mention which version of Ubuntu you are using? And where exactly is the icon that you can see but doesn't work as you expect?
Also, how did you install the other program that is behaving in an apparently similar manner? Was it from the software centre, installed by default, or installed from a .deb package in the same way that you installed BibleAnalyzer?

**Jackalyn** · October 11th, 2012

Thank you everyone. I have tried everything and beyond the fact that I have the files, yet again, nothing is working which means either my brain is not working or somewhere I missed a vital step, or that there is something wrong with my system.

If I go to my home folder the folder is there. I click on Home and it is the first file I see, given they arrange themselves in alphabetical order.

When I click on properties I get the file name as bibleanalyzer, the type as folder (inode directory)

Create and delete files is checked and I have permission for executing file checked.

I downloaded as per instructions from here

http://www.bibleanalyzer.com/linux.htm

I also downloaded the BAmod script, and than is in the bibleanalyzer file.

Following the instructions for the BAmodscript I get

Code:

 code that will not copy and paste here but says there are no such files

I have tried everything I can and every suggestion above. but just cannot get it to work.

and if I click ls I get

Code:

jacky@jacky-Aspire-6930G:~$ ls
Adobe Digital Editions.desktop       output
adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm  Personal
bibleanalyzer                        Photos
bibles                               Pictures
Calibre Library                      Practice.zip
calligra                             Public
C:\nppdf32Log\debuglog.txt           QuotingPassages.zip
DayJournal                           RKJNT.zip
DEBIAN                               RWP.zip
Desktop                              sakis3g.gz
Documents                            Sample Album
Downloads                            SAOA.zip
Dropbox                              Smith.zip
eSnipsDownloader.exe                 StrongsGreek.zip
ESNIPS WINE DOWNLOADS                StrongsHebrew.zip
ESP FILES                            TCR.zip
examples.desktop                     TDavid.zip
FIREDANCE                            Templates
gVerse-0.5                           TEXT FILES AND GEDIT
gVerse-0.5.tar.gz                    TFG.zip
Java                                 Torrey(1).zip
jsword-latest-bin.tar.gz             Torrey.zip
kde4                                 TSK.zip
libre and open office installations  Ubuntu One
MAGAZINE TEMPLATE                    UKJV.zip
mods.d                               Untitled Folder
modules                              Untitled Folder 3
Music                                usr
My Digital Editions                  Videos
My eSnips Downloads                  WEBBE.zip
NETtext (3)                          WEBME.zip
NETtext.zip                          WebstersDict.zip
NHEB.zip                             xdg
jacky@jacky-Aspire-6930G:~$

so it IS there.,.....

Oh dear is that something that I need to try and fix before anything else and could it be why I am having so much trouble?

Could it also be I need to download some extra python script? I am not really sure what I would have in Ubuntu but thought it probably included what I need. I cannot really see what I would get from the software manager if I do need it so if I do please can someone tell me what I am looking for?

I just looked for the bibleanalyzer program using 'Synapse' and it does not appear.

Could the terminal conflict with the program?

I did notice there are other places on the internet where people are suggesting there have been issues with this program.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=65252

(one reason I do want it is because it was useful to me when I was using windows.) This does make it look like it might install under wine but I think I would need help to do that. I do have Wine but have not really figured out how to make things work with it.

**Jackalyn** · October 11th, 2012

It installed perfectly under Wine! First time no problems..........

Ah well I learned a lot on the way for using Linux.

Thank you to everyone who helped me here. Hopefully some other newbie sometime will read this and go to the Wine option first. I don't know why they give a linux version if it does not work.