Re: Linux provides software to study the Bible, out of the box

On 16 Apr 2025 06:00:58 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote in
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On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 21:15:23 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
 

On 4/15/25 21:05, rbowman wrote:

On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 19:57:01 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
 

I know that it probably won't interest most people, but I thought
that was pretty cool. Knowing that a distribution provides not only
the Bible but notes to help you study the content is neat. Maybe if
our resident homosexual gets acquainted with it, he will have a
chance of avoiding Hell.

 
Are you talking about UbuntuCE?  If you're looking for enlightenment
out of the box:
 
https://www.bodhilinux.com/
 
Bodhi Linux appears to be more of a minimalist philosophical statement
rather than any specific Buddhist content.

 
Actually, I was referring to Xiphos which allows you to download your
choice of Bible version from within the software.

 
UbuntuCE does include Xiphos but it is a third party application that is
also available for Windows and Unix. I'm not sure about MacOS. Other
than UbuntuCE it isn't included in any distribution 'out of the box'.
That's like saying Linux provides 'John the Ripper'.  That also runs on
Linux, Windows, and other OSs. As far as 'out of the box', iirc you have
to select one of the packages even in Kali.
 
Other than the CE build, not out of the box on Ubuntu. You have to add a
PPA since some of the prerequisites aren't in the standard Ubuntu
packages.
 
https://launchpad.net/~pkgcrosswire/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
 
 
"One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The
proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this."
 
Friedrich Nietzsche
 
As far as the Old Testament, Marcion had the right idea. No reason to be
concerned with the Jews and their genocidal tribal god. New day, new
covenant.

Ubuntu (and derivatives) have the classic package "bible-kjv", which
gives you a bible(1) command:

$ bible
bible: Debian/BRS Release 4.36
Hit '?' for help.

Genesis 1

  1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
bible(KJV) [Gen1:1]> ??light
  Searching for 'light'... [235 refs]
bible(KJV) [Gen1:1]> ?and darkness
  Searching for 'darkness'... [142 refs]
  [55 refs in combined list]
bible(KJV) [Gen1:1]> ?list
  References [55]:  Gen1:4 Gen1:5 Gen1:18 Ex14:20 Job3:4 Job10:22 Job12:22
Job17:12 Job18:18 Job29:3 Job30:26 Job38:19 Ps18:28 Ps112:4 Ps139:11 Ps139:12
Ec2:13 Is5:20 Is5:30 Is9:2 Is42:16 Is45:7 Is50:10 Is58:10 Is59:9 Je13:16 Lam3:2
Da2:22 Am5:18 Am5:20 Mi7:8 Mt4:16 Mt6:23 Mt10:27 Lu1:79 Lu11:34 Lu11:35 Lu12:3
Jn1:5 Jn3:19 Jn8:12 Jn12:35 Jn12:46 Ac26:18 Ro2:19 Ro13:12 1Co4:5 2Co4:6
2Co6:14 Ep5:8 1Th5:5 1Pe2:9 1Jn1:5 1Jn2:8 1Jn2:9
bible(KJV) [Gen1:1]> mt6:22-23

Matthew 6

  22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy
whole body shall be full of light.
  23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If
therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
bible(KJV) [Mt6:23]>
 _ _ _ _ _ _ _

But https://biblegateway.com is better, with quite a few translations.
bible(1) is just easier for quick quotes for c/p.

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